Reading code is an essential activity in software maintenance and evolution. Several
studies with human subjects have investigated how different factors, such as the employed …

Developers frequently use inefficient code sequences that could be fixed by simple patches.
These inefficient code sequences can cause significant performance degradation and …

Recent studies in the literature have shown that syntax remains a significant barrier to
novice computer science students in the field. While this syntax barrier is known to exist …

We report on our experience with the hardware transactional memory (HTM) feature of two
pre-production revisions of a new commercial multicore processor. Our experience includes …

Sometimes debates on programming languages are more religious than scientific.
Questions about which language is more succinct or efficient, or makes developers more …

An increasing number of households is connected to the Internet via DSL or cable, for which
home gateways are required. The optimization of these-caused by their large number-is a …

Multicore technology is making concurrent programs increasingly pervasive. Unfortunately, it
is difficult to deliver reliable concurrent programs, because of the huge and non …

Multi-core systems are any computing device nowadays and stream processing applications
are becoming recurrent workloads, demanding parallelism to achieve the desired quality of …

Lambdas have seen increasing use in mainstream programming languages, notably in Java
8 and C++ 11. While the technical aspects of lambdas are known, we conducted the first …

This paper presents elastic transactions, a variant of the transactional model. Upon conflict
detection, an elastic transaction might drop what it did so far within a separate transaction …