Most modern compilers operate by applying a fixed, program-independent sequence of optimizations to all programs. Compiler writers choose a single “compilation sequence”, or ...
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Application specific instruction-set processors combine an efficient general purpose core with special purpose functionality that is tailored to a particular application domain. ...
Uwe Kastens, Dinh Khoi Le, Adrian Slowik, Michael ...
A proxy object is a surrogate or placeholder that controls access to another target object. Proxies can be used to support distributed programming, lazy or parallel evaluation, ac...
Polyvios Pratikakis, Jaime Spacco, Michael W. Hick...
Test is often seen as a necessary evil; it is a fact of life that ICs have manufacturing defects and those need to be filtered out by testing before the ICs are shipped to the cu...
Erik Jan Marinissen, Bart Vermeulen, Robert Madge,...
Testing is often performed frequently during development to ensure software reliability by catching regression errors quickly. However, stopping frequently to test also wastes tim...