Most “Big Data” systems are written in managed languages, such as Java, C#, or Scala.
These systems suffer from severe memory problems due to the massive volume of objects …

The Spectre family of security vulnerabilities show that speculative execution attacks on
modern processors are practical. Spectre variant 2 attacks exploit the speculation of indirect …

Dynamic programming languages such as Python are becoming increasingly more popular,
yet often show a significant performance slowdown compared to static languages such as C …

Modern software uses indirect branches for various purposes including, but not limited to,
virtual method dispatch and implementation of switch statements. Because an indirect …

Modern processors use branch target buffers (BTBs) to predict the target address of
branches such that they can fetch ahead in the instruction stream increasing concurrency …

History-based branch direction predictors for conditional branches are shown to be highly
accurate. Indirect branches however, are hard to predict as they may have multiple targets …

Indirect branches have become increasingly common in modular programs written in
modern object-oriented languages and virtual-machine-based runtime systems …

GPU computing has matured to include advanced C++ programming features. As a result,
complex applications can potentially benefit from the continued performance improvements …

The same flexibility that makes dynamic scripting languages appealing to programmers is
also the primary cause of their low performance. To access objects of potentially different …

Devirtualization is an optimization changing indirect (virtual) calls to direct calls. It improves
performance by allowing extra inlining and removal of redundant loads. This paper presents …