Since benchmarks drive computer science research and industry product development,
which ones we use and how we evaluate them are key questions for the community. Despite …

Understanding program behavior is at the foundation of computer architecture and program
optimization. Many programs have wildly different behavior on even the very largest of …

JavaScript is widely used in web-based applications and is increasingly popular with
developers. So-called browser wars in recent years have focused on JavaScript …

Compared to software development for desktop systems, current software design practice for
embedded systems is still archaic. C/C++ and even assembler are used on top of a small …

Mobile apps include privacy settings that allow their users to configure how their data should
be shared. These settings, however, are often hard to locate and hard to understand by the …

Java workloads are becoming increasingly prominent on various platforms ranging from
embedded systems, over general-purpose computers to high-end servers. Understanding …

Java workloads are becoming more and more prominent on various computing devices.
Understanding the behavior of a Java workload which includes the interaction between the …

Nowadays, emerging integrated heterogeneous platforms play major roles to host
autonomous systems. However, the security issue that comes with such heterogeneous …

The rapid adoption of non-Java JVM languages is impressive: major international
corporations are staking critical parts of their software infrastructure on components built …

Managed code, including applications, runtime, and driver, have a priori knowledge of the
client's exact hardware configuration, just as the JIT compiler has a priori knowledge of the …