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ICFP
2007
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
2007
ACM
In the light of evidence that Haskell programs compiled by GHC exhibit large numbers of mispredicted branches on modern processors, we re-examine the "tagless" aspect of...
APLAS
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
We present a simple algorithmic extension of the classical call-strings approach to mitigate substantial performance degradation caused by spurious interprocedural cycles. Spuriou...
ASPLOS
1996
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
1996
ACM
New high-speed networks greatly encourage the use of network memory as a cache for virtual memory and file pages, thereby reducing the need for disk access. Becausepages are the f...
DATE
1999
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
1999
IEEE
Software programming languages, such as C/C++, have been used as means for specifying hardware for quite a while. Different design methodologies have exploited the advantages of f...
DLS
2008
14 years 11 months ago
2008
Static and dynamic type systems have well-known strengths and weaknesses. Gradual typing provides the benefits of both in a single language by giving the programmer control over w...