The lack of virtual memory protection is a serious source of unreliability in many embedded systems. Without the segment-level protection it provides, these systems are subject to...
Previous work on using external aggregate rating information showed that this information can be incorporated in several different types of recommender systems and improves their...
This paper presents a quantification of the timing effects that advanced processor features like data and instruction cache, pipelines, branch prediction units and out-oforder ex...
Java is implemented by 201 bytecodes that serve the same purpose as assembler instructions while providing object-file platform independence. A collection of core bytecodes provid...
For many years, C has been known as a fast, yet unfriendly language. Similarly, Java presents its own trade-offs, including more advanced language features at the cost of slower ex...