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ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Listening to programmers - Taxonomies and characteristics of comments in operating system code
Innovations from multiple directions have been proposed to improve software reliability. Unfortunately, many of the innovations are not fully exploited by programmers. To bridge t...
Yoann Padioleau, Lin Tan, Yuanyuan Zhou
PLDI
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Chameleon: adaptive selection of collections
Languages such as Java and C#, as well as scripting languages like Python, and Ruby, make extensive use of Collection classes. A collection implementation represents a fixed choic...
Ohad Shacham, Martin T. Vechev, Eran Yahav
POPL
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Proving that non-blocking algorithms don't block
A concurrent data-structure implementation is considered nonblocking if it meets one of three following liveness criteria: waitfreedom, lock-freedom, or obstruction-freedom. Devel...
Alexey Gotsman, Byron Cook, Matthew J. Parkinson, ...
ECOOP
2009
Springer
16 years 6 months ago
Making Sense of Large Heaps
Abstract. It is common for large-scale Java applications to suffer memory problems, whether inefficient designs that impede scalability, or lifetime bugs such as leaks. Making sens...
Nick Mitchell, Edith Schonberg, Gary Sevitsky
CC
2009
Springer
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Compile-Time Analysis and Specialization of Clocks in Concurrent Programs
Abstract. Clocks are a mechanism for providing synchronization barriers in concurrent programming languages. They are usually implemented using primitive communication mechanisms a...
Nalini Vasudevan, Olivier Tardieu, Julian Dolby, S...