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PLDI
2012
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Dynamic synthesis for relaxed memory models
Modern architectures implement relaxed memory models which may reorder memory operations or execute them non-atomically. Special instructions called memory fences are provided, al...
Feng Liu, Nayden Nedev, Nedyalko Prisadnikov, Mart...
IEEECIT
2010
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
XMalloc: A Scalable Lock-free Dynamic Memory Allocator for Many-core Machines
There are two avenues for many-core machines to gain higher performance: increasing the number of processors, and increasing the number of vector units in one SIMD processor. A tru...
Xiaohuang Huang, Christopher I. Rodrigues, Stephen...
CCS
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
DieHarder: securing the heap
Heap-based attacks depend on a combination of memory management errors and an exploitable memory allocator. We analyze a range of widely-deployed memory allocators, including thos...
Gene Novark, Emery D. Berger
ASPLOS
2000
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Hoard: A Scalable Memory Allocator for Multithreaded Applications
Parallel, multithreaded C and C++ programs such as web servers, database managers, news servers, and scientific applications are becoming increasingly prevalent. For these applic...
Emery D. Berger, Kathryn S. McKinley, Robert D. Bl...