Running compute-intensive or blocking I/O operations in the UI event thread of smartphone
apps can severely degrade responsiveness. Despite the fact that Android supports writing …

Context: The performance assessment of complex software systems is not a trivial task since
it depends on the design, code, and execution environment. All these factors may affect the …

In the multicore era, a major programming task will be to make programs more parallel. This
is tedious because it requires changing many lines of code; it's also error-prone and …

We present an approach for automatic translation of sequential, imperative code into a
parallel MapReduce framework. Automating such a translation is challenging: imperative …

Asynchronous programming is in demand today, because responsiveness is increasingly
important on all modern devices. Yet, we know little about how developers use …

The JavaScript ecosystem provides equivalent synchronous and asynchronous Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs) for many commonly used I/O operations. Synchronous APIs …

To write code, developers stitch together patterns, like API protocols or data structure
traversals. Discovering these patterns can identify inconsistencies in code or opportunities to …

Recent versions of the Java standard library offer flexible locking constructs that go beyond
the language's built-in monitor locks in terms of features, and that can be fine-tuned to suit …

Intel® Xeon Phi coprocessor is based on the Intel® Many Integrated Core (Intel® MIC)
architecture, which is an innovative new processor architecture that combines abundant …

Java 8 introduces two functional features: lambda expressions and functional operations like
map or filter that apply a lambda expression over the elements of a Collection. Refactoring …