During its formative decades the software community looked twice to the theories of ChristopherAlexander for inspiration, both times failing to completely master the architect’s...
Generic classes can be used to improve performance by allowing compile-time polymorphism. But the applicability of compile-time polymorphism is narrower than that of runtime polym...
Dan Tsafrir, Robert W. Wisniewski, David F. Bacon,...
Today’s shared-memory parallel programming models are complex and error-prone. While many parallel programs are intended to be deterministic, unanticipated thread interleavings ...
Robert L. Bocchino Jr., Vikram S. Adve, Danny Dig,...
Scripting languages enjoy great popularity due their support for rapid and exploratory development. They typically have lightweight syntax, weak data privacy, dynamic typing, powe...
Bard Bloom, John Field, Nathaniel Nystrom, Johan &...
Programs written in managed languages are compiled to a platform-independent intermediate representation, such as Java bytecode. The relative high level of Java bytecode has engen...