SIGPLAN

This book is apparently the author's 1991 Ph.D. thesis, completed at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Peter Willett. The goal of the work was to explore the use of parallel processing to search a database of molecular structures for ...

From the preface: "Because parallelism is a natural consequence of the use of objects, the development of systems for concurrent object-oriented programming is providing important software support for a new generation of concurrent computers."

Loop fusion has been a traditional transformation in optimizing and parallelizing compilers. There are various benefits in performing loop fusion. Most trivially, loop fusion reduces the overheads associated in implementing loops in computer hardware by ...

Compiler infrastructures that support experimental research are crucial to the advancement of high-performance computing. New compiler technology must be implemented and evaluated in the context of a complete compiler, but developing such an ...

An extensible representation for object-oriented programs is presented. It is based on the concept of a program dependency graph and elaborated to include both control flow and data flow information. The representation takes advantage of the basic ...

Agora is a framework for exploring object-oriented languages. In this paper we will discuss a particular prototype-based instance of Agora that features a general mixin-based approach to (multiple) inheritance. One of the major innovations of Agora is ...

Covariant specification is the process in a subclass to narrow the varying scope of an instance variable, or the varying scope of the input or output interface of an operation which has already been specified in the superclass. Covariant specification ...

Object-oriented programming (OOP) shows great potential for use in concurrent and distributed systems. However, several issues must be considered before moving into the concurrent/distributed arena. This paper considers the following issues: sharing of ...

What's more depressing than a programming instructor who presents "correct" examples based on bad practice? In Bug Analysis of Pascal Programs (April, 1994, p. 15) the author posed a simple student problem:

As design cycle times in the computer industry decrease, it becomes increasingly important to have a fast, effective software-development environment quickly available so that software may be developed for emergent microprocessors well before general ...

Computerized databases are essential and inseparable components of a vast majority of today's information systems. Database systems are used at all levels of management, research and production to provide uniform access and control of consistent ...

Recently, a novel pair of process synchronization instructions, load_linked and store_conditional, were introduced into the computing repertoire. These instructions were used to define two novel and intriguing protocols for process synchronization, a ...

We consider one approach to using C++ to write a compiler in combination with the lexical analysis tool Lex and the parser generator tool YACC. This approach uses C++ classes and constructors to build a syntax tree during the parse. Synthesized and ...

C programmers are plagued by a variety of problems rooted at the language level. Memory corruption and memory leakage are two related problems that are hard to fix. The results are delayed or failed software projects.Better C is an Object-Oriented ...

Memory allocators have memory fragmentation problem, which can result in large amount of wasted memory. The capability to create unmapped pages in the heap can eliminate most of the memory fragmentation, and reduce paging I/O activity. This has ...