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EMSOFT
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Remote customization of systems code for embedded devices
Dedicated operating systems for embedded systems are fast being phased out due to their use of manual optimization, which provides high performance and small footprint, but also r...
Sapan Bhatia, Charles Consel, Calton Pu
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CISIS
2010
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Study of Variations of Native Program Execution Times on Multi-Core Architectures
Abstract—Program performance optimisations, feedbackdirected iterative compilation and auto-tuning systems [1] all assume a fixed estimation of execution time given a fixed inp...
Abdelhafid Mazouz, Sid Ahmed Ali Touati, Denis Bar...
CCS
2010
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
A control point for reducing root abuse of file-system privileges
We address the problem of restricting root’s ability to change arbitrary files on disk, in order to prevent abuse on most current desktop operating systems. The approach first...
Glenn Wurster, Paul C. van Oorschot
145
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ARCS
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
How Efficient are Creatures with Time-shuffled Behaviors?
: The task of the creatures in the "creatures' exploration problem" is to visit all empty cells in an environment with a minimum number of steps. We have analyzed th...
Patrick Ediger, Rolf Hoffmann, Mathias Halbach
CGO
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Self-Repairing Prefetcher in an Event-Driven Dynamic Optimization Framework
Software prefetching has been demonstrated as a powerful technique to tolerate long load latencies. However, to be effective, prefetching must target the most critical (frequently...
Weifeng Zhang, Brad Calder, Dean M. Tullsen