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USENIX
1994
15 years 28 days ago
1994
This paper presents a comprehensive design overview of the SunOS 5.4 kernel memory allocator. This allocator is based on a set of object-caching primitives that reduce the cost of...
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CF
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
Hybrid architectures combining the strengths of generalpurpose processors with application-specific hardware accelerators can lead to a significant performance improvement. Our ...
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CASES
2003
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
2003
ACM
This paper presents a highly predictable, low overhead and yet dynamic, memory allocation strategy for embedded systems with scratch-pad memory. A scratch-pad is a fast compiler-m...
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PLDI
2012
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Modern architectures implement relaxed memory models which may reorder memory operations or execute them non-atomically. Special instructions called memory fences are provided, al...
VLDB
1997
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
1997
ACM
Sorting is a memory intensive operation whose performance is greatly affected by the amount of memory available as work space. When the input size is unknown or available memory s...