The demand for high performance has driven acyclic computation accelerators into extensive use in modern embedded and desktop architectures. Accelerators that are ideal from a sof...
Applying the right compiler optimizations to a particular program can have a significant impact on program performance. Due to the non-linear interaction of compiler optimization...
John Cavazos, Grigori Fursin, Felix V. Agakov, Edw...
Libre (free / open source) software development is a complex phenomenon. Many actors (core developers, casual contributors, bug reporters, patch submitters, users, etc.), in many ...
Studying the release-time activities of a software project — that is, activities that occur around the time of a major or minor release — can provide insights into both the de...
Large object-oriented applications are structured over large number of packages. Packages are important but complex structural entities that may be difficult to understand since ...