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ICS
2007
Tsinghua U.
14 years 12 days ago
2007
Tsinghua U.
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE-ACM
Difficulties understanding update paths while understanding code cause developers to waste time and insert bugs. A detailed investigation of these difficulties suggests that a wid...
SIGMOD
1996
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
1996
ACM
While much recent research has focussed on extending databases beyond the traditional relational model, relatively little has been done to develop database tools for querying data...
ICDE
2011
IEEE
12 years 10 months ago
2011
IEEE
— Uncertain data is quite common nowadays in a variety of modern database applications. At the same time, the join operation is one of the most important but expensive operations...
ICSE
2010
IEEE-ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
IEEE-ACM
Over 30 years ago, the preprocessor cpp was developed to extend the programming language C by lightweight metaprogramming capabilities. Despite its error-proneness and low ion lev...