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PLDI
2006
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
DieHard: probabilistic memory safety for unsafe languages
Applications written in unsafe languages like C and C++ are vulnerable to memory errors such as buffer overflows, dangling pointers, and reads of uninitialized data. Such errors ...
Emery D. Berger, Benjamin G. Zorn
PLDI
2006
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Optimizing memory transactions
Atomic blocks allow programmers to delimit sections of code as ‘atomic’, leaving the language’s implementation to enforce atomicity. Existing work has shown how to implement...
Timothy L. Harris, Mark Plesko, Avraham Shinnar, D...
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
140views Education» more  SIGCSE 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
CFX: finding just the right examples for CS1
Finding just the right example to answer a question can be difficult for CS1 students and teachers. For this to work well there must be an intuitive interface coupled to an approp...
Dale Reed, Sam John, Ryan Aviles, Feihong Hsu
SIGMETRICS
2004
ACM
103views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Myths and realities: the performance impact of garbage collection
This paper explores and quantifies garbage collection behavior for three whole heap collectors and generational counterparts: copying semi-space, mark-sweep, and reference counti...
Stephen M. Blackburn, Perry Cheng, Kathryn S. McKi...
ICSE
2001
IEEE-ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Using Transformation Systems for Software Maintenance and Reengineering
Software maintenance costs dominate software engineering costs, partly because most such engineering is done manually. Program Transformation tools leverage an engineer-provided b...
Ira D. Baxter