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CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Using strokes as command shortcuts: cognitive benefits and toolkit support
This paper investigates using stroke gestures as shortcuts to menu selection. We first experimentally measured the performance and ease of learning of stroke shortcuts in comparis...
Caroline Appert, Shumin Zhai
CHI
2007
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Let's go to the whiteboard: how and why software developers use drawings
Software developers are rooted in the written form of their code, yet they often draw diagrams representing their code. Unfortunately, we still know little about how and why they ...
Mauro Cherubini, Gina Venolia, Robert DeLine, Andr...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
An OS-based alternative to full hardware coherence on tiled CMPs
The interconnect mechanisms (shared bus or crossbar) used in current chip-multiprocessors (CMPs) are expected to become a bottleneck that prevents these architectures from scaling...
Christian Fensch, Marcelo Cintra
HPCA
2004
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Hardware Support for Prescient Instruction Prefetch
This paper proposes and evaluates hardware mechanisms for supporting prescient instruction prefetch--an approach to improving single-threaded application performance by using help...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow, Per Hammarlund, Hong Wan...
HPCA
2001
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A New Scalable Directory Architecture for Large-Scale Multiprocessors
The memory overhead introduced by directories constitutes a major hurdle in the scalability of cc-NUMA architectures, which makes the shared-memory paradigm unfeasible for very la...
Manuel E. Acacio, José González, Jos...