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CCS
2008
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
When good instructions go bad: generalizing return-oriented programming to RISC
This paper reconsiders the threat posed by Shacham's "return-oriented programming" -- a technique by which WX-style hardware protections are evaded via carefully cr...
Erik Buchanan, Ryan Roemer, Hovav Shacham, Stefan ...
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Using English information in non-English web search
The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou
CASES
2007
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Facilitating compiler optimizations through the dynamic mapping of alternate register structures
Aggressive compiler optimizations such as software pipelining and loop invariant code motion can significantly improve application performance, but these transformations often re...
Chris Zimmer, Stephen Roderick Hines, Prasad Kulka...
CODES
2008
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Performance debugging of Esterel specifications
Synchronous languages like Esterel have been widely adopted for designing reactive systems in safety-critical domains such as avionics. Specifications written in Esterel are based...
Lei Ju, Bach Khoa Huynh, Abhik Roychoudhury, Samar...
PDCN
2004
15 years 9 months ago
Speculative prefetching of optional locks in distributed systems
We present a family of methods for speeding up distributed locks by exploiting the uneven distribution of both temporal and spatial locality of access behaviour of many applicatio...
Thomas Schöbel-Theuer