Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
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Compilers use register coalescing to avoid generating code for copy instructions. For architectures with register aliasing such as x86, Smith, Ramsey, and Holloway (2004) presented...
The emergence of applications domains such as pervasive and autonomic computing has increased the need for customisation and dynamic adaptation of both distributed systems, and th...
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While a number of different shading languages have been developed, their efficient integration into an existing renderer is notoriously difficult, often boiling down to implementi...
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Dynamic software updates (DSU) are one of the top-most features requested by developers and users. As a result, DSU is already standard in many dynamic programming languages. But,...
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