Various programming tools, languages, and environments give programmers the impression
of changing a program while it is running. This experience of liveness has been discussed …

Network performance monitoring today is restricted by existing switch support for
measurement, forcing operators to rely heavily on endpoints with poor visibility into the …

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Sixth Edition has been considered
essential reading by instructors, students and practitioners of computer design for over 20 …

This is version 2.1 of the document describing the RISC-V user-level architecture. Note the
frozen user-level ISA base and extensions IMAFDQ version 2.0 have not changed from the …

In both the popular press and scholarly research, digital information is persistently discussed
in terms that imply its immateriality. In this characterization, the digital derives its power from …

Many interactive computing environments provide automatic storage reclamation and virtual
memory to ease the burden of managing storage. Unfortunately, many storage reclamation …

Polymorphic inline caches (PICs) provide a new way to reduce the overhead of polymorphic
message sends by extending inline caches to include more than one cached lookup result …

Magic is a new IC layout system that includes several facilities traditionally contained in
separate batch-processing programs. Magic incorporates expertise about design rules …

Crossing abstraction boundaries often incurs a substantial run-time overhead in the form of
frequent procedure calls. Thus, pervasive use of abstraction, while desirable from a design …

A processor architecture attempts to compromise between the needs of programs hosted on
the architecture and the performance attainable in implementing the architecture. The needs …