Side effects are both the essence and bane of imperative programming. The programmer must carefully coordinate actions to manage their side effects upon each other. Such coordinat...
A compressed-domain transformation is one that operates directly on the compressed format, rather than requiring conversion to an uncompressed format prior to processing. Performi...
The emergence of heterogeneous many core architectures presents a unique opportunity for delivering order of magnitude performance increases to high performance applications by ma...
Developers rely on the mechanisms provided by their IDE to browse and navigate a large software system. These mechanisms are usually based purely on a system’s static source cod...
Jails, Sandboxes and other isolation mechanisms limit the damage from untrusted programs by reducing a process’s privileges to the minimum. Sandboxing is designed to thwart such...