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ICSE
2011
IEEE-ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Mental models and parallel program maintenance
Parallel programs are difficult to write, test, and debug. This thesis explores how programmers build mental models about parallel programs, and demonstrates, through user evaluat...
Caitlin Sadowski
PLDI
2011
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Languages as libraries
Programming language design benefits from constructs for extending the syntax and semantics of a host language. While C’s stringbased macros empower programmers to introduce no...
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Vincent St-Amour, Ryan Culpep...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Randomized active atomicity violation detection in concurrent programs
Atomicity is an important specification that enables programmers to understand atomic blocks of code in a multi-threaded program as if they are sequential. This significantly simp...
Chang-Seo Park, Koushik Sen
PPOPP
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Is transactional programming actually easier?
Chip multi-processors (CMPs) have become ubiquitous, while tools that ease concurrent programming have not. The promise of increased performance for all applications through ever ...
Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Emmett W...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Ksplice: automatic rebootless kernel updates
Ksplice allows system administrators to apply patches to their operating system kernels without rebooting. Unlike previous hot update systems, Ksplice operates at the object code ...
Jeff Arnold, M. Frans Kaashoek