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2015
ACM
9 years 11 months ago
A simpler, safer programming and execution model for intermittent systems
Energy harvesting enables novel devices and applications without batteries, but intermittent operation under energy harvesting poses new challenges to memory consistency that thre...
Brandon Lucia, Benjamin Ransford
PLDI
2015
ACM
9 years 11 months ago
A formal C memory model supporting integer-pointer casts
The ISO C standard does not specify the semantics of many valid programs that use non-portable idioms such as integer-pointer casts. Recent efforts at formal definitions and veri...
Jeehoon Kang, Chung-Kil Hur, William Mansky, Dmitr...
PLDI
2015
ACM
9 years 11 months ago
Autotuning algorithmic choice for input sensitivity
A daunting challenge faced by program performance autotuning is input sensitivity, where the best autotuned configuration may vary with different input sets. This paper presents ...
Yufei Ding, Jason Ansel, Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Xi...
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PLDI
2015
ACM
9 years 11 months ago
Verifying read-copy-update in a logic for weak memory
Read-Copy-Update (RCU) is a technique for letting multiple readers safely access a data structure while a writer concurrently modifies it. It is used heavily in the Linux kernel ...
Joseph Tassarotti, Derek Dreyer, Viktor Vafeiadis
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PLDI
2015
ACM
9 years 11 months ago
Declarative programming over eventually consistent data stores
User-facing online services utilize geo-distributed data stores to minimize latency and tolerate partial failures, with the intention to provide a fast, always-on experience. Howe...
K. C. Sivaramakrishnan, Gowtham Kaki, Suresh Jagan...