Targeted optimization of program segments can provide an additional program speedup over the highest default optimization level, such as -O3 in GCC. The key challenge is how to au...
Haiping Wu, Eunjung Park, Mihailo Kaplarevic, Ying...
With the increasing gap between processor speed and memory latency, the performance of data-dominated programs are becoming more reliant on fast data access, which can be improved...
Computational phylogeny is a challenging application even for the most powerful supercomputers. It is also an ideal candidate for benchmarking emerging multiprocessor architecture...
Filip Blagojevic, Alexandros Stamatakis, Christos ...
Software evolution plays a key role in the overall lifecycle of a software system. In this phase, software developers extend the capabilities and functionality of the system to me...
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Software developers often do not build software from scratch but reuse software libraries. In theory, the APIs of a library should be stable, but in practice they do change and th...