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Easy and Accurate Hardware-based Program Performance Monitoring

Andrzej Pawel Nowak

The performance monitoring of computer systems is a complex affair, made even more challenging by the increasing gap between hardware and software. Methods that collect and feed data to performance analysis can usually be classified into one of two groups. ...

EPFL2017

Improving systems software security through program analysis and instrumentation

Volodymyr Kuznetsov

Security and reliability bugs are prevalent in systems software. Systems code is often written in low-level languages like C/C++, which offer many benefits but also delegate memory management and type safety to programmers. This invites bugs that cause cra ...

EPFL2016

Java and Scala's Type Systems are Unsound The Existential Crisis of Null Pointers

Nada Amin

We present short programs that demonstrate the unsoundness of Java and Scala's current type systems. In particular, these programs provide parametrically polymorphic functions that can turn any type into any type without (down) casting. Fortunately, parame ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Fast and Robust Memory Reclamation for Concurrent Data Structures

Rachid Guerraoui, Mihail Igor Zablotchi, Oana Maria Balmau

In concurrent systems without automatic garbage collection, it is challenging to determine when it is safe to reclaim memory, especially for lock-free data structures. Existing concurrent memory reclamation schemes are either fast but do not tolerate proce ...

2016

Fast and Robust Memory Reclamation for Concurrent Data Structures

Rachid Guerraoui, Mihail Igor Zablotchi, Oana Maria Balmau

2016

Automating Live Update for Generic Server Programs

Calin Iorgulescu

The pressing demand to deploy software updates without stopping running programs has fostered much research on live update systems in the past decades. Prior solutions, however, either make strong assumptions on the nature of the update or require extensiv ...

Ieee Computer Soc2016

Asynchronous memory access chaining

Babak Falsafi, Boris Robert Grot, Yusuf Onur Koçberber

In-memory databases rely on pointer-intensive data structures to quickly locate data in memory. A single lookup operation in such data structures often exhibits long-latency memory stalls due to dependent pointer dereferences. Hiding the memory latency by ...

2015

Region-based off-heap memory for Scala

This work explores support for region-based memory in Scala through macro-based domain-specific encoding that exploits a number of extensible language features such as implicits and value classes. ...

2015

Java and Scala's Type Systems are Unsound: The Existential Crisis of Null Pointers

Nada Amin

We present short programs that demonstrate the unsoundness of Java and Scala’s current type systems. In particular, these programs provide parametrically polymorphic functions that can turn any type into any type without (down)casting. Fortunately, paramet ...

2015

Fold-based fusion as a library: a generative programming pearl

Sandro Stucki, Manohar Jonnalagedda

Fusion is a program optimisation technique commonly implemented using special-purpose compiler support. In this paper, we present an alternative approach, implementing fold-based fusion as a standalone library. We use staging to compose operations on folds ...

ACM Press2015