Predicated execution can eliminate hard to predict branches and help to enable instruction level parallelism. Many current predication variants exist where the result update is co...
Abstract. The authors of this paper have all developed a framework that allows runtime adaptation of software systems. Based on our experiences, we wish to summarize common pitfall...
Peter Ebraert, Theo D'Hondt, Yves Vandewoude, Yola...
Dynamic binary translation systems enable a wide range of applications such as program instrumentation, optimization, and security. DBTs use a software code cache to store previou...
Robust and powerful software instrumentation tools are essential for program analysis tasks such as profiling, performance evaluation, and bug detection. To meet this need, we ha...
Chi-Keung Luk, Robert S. Cohn, Robert Muth, Harish...
The adoption of distributed version control (DVC), such as Git and Mercurial, in open-source software (OSS) projects has been explosive. Why is this and how are projects using DVC?...
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Abra...