This paper presents a type-based solution to the long-standing problem of object initialization. Constructors, the conventional mechanism for object initialization, have semantics...
Using existing programming tools, writing high-performance image processing code requires sacrificing readability, portability, and modularity. We argue that this is a consequenc...
Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Andrew Adams, Sylvain Paris...
Message-passing is an attractive thread coordination mechanism because it cleanly delineates points in an execution when threads communicate, and unifies synchronization and comm...
K. C. Sivaramakrishnan, Lukasz Ziarek, Raghavendra...
The popular slogan ”write once, run anywhere” effectively renders the expressive capabilities of the Java programming framework for developing, deploying, and reusing target-i...
In earlier work, we showed that the one-sided communication model found in PGAS languages (such as UPC) offers significant advantages in communication efficiency by decoupling d...
Rajesh Nishtala, Paul Hargrove, Dan Bonachea, Kath...