Software systems typically exploit only a small fraction of the realizable performance from the underlying microprocessors. While there has been much work on hardware-aware optimiz...
Dan Knights, Todd Mytkowicz, Peter F. Sweeney, Mic...
—The widely used C preprocessor (CPP) is generally considered a source of difficulty for understanding and maintaining C/C++ programs. The main reason for this difficulty is CP...
Andreas Saebjoernsen, Lingxiao Jiang, Daniel J. Qu...
The JavaTM programming language does not allow the programmer to influence memory management. An object is usually allocated on the heap and deallocated by the garbage collector ...
The performance of computer systems varies over the course of their execution. A system may perform well during some parts of its execution and poorly during others. To understand...
Todd Mytkowicz, Peter F. Sweeney, Matthias Hauswir...
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...