Concurrent and incremental collectors require barriers to ensure correct synchronisation between mutator and collector. The overheads imposed by particular barriers on particular ...
Laurence Hellyer, Richard Jones, Antony L. Hosking
Hadoop is a software framework supporting the Map/Reduce programming model. It relies on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as its primary storage system. The efficiency of ...
Bogdan Nicolae, Diana Moise, Gabriel Antoniu, Luc ...
Remote tasking encompasses different functionality, such as remote forking, multiple remote spawning, and task migration. In order to overcome the relatively high costs of these m...
Dejan S. Milojicic, Alan Langerman, David L. Black...
Stepwise refinement is at the core of many approaches to synthesis and optimization of hardware and software systems. For instance, it can be used to build a synthesis approach for...
After some general remarks about program verification, we introduce separation logic, a novel extension of Hoare logic that can strengthen the applicability and scalability of pro...