Elegant C

A recent ACM article,  C is Not a Low-Level Language , argues that for all of our impressions that C is close to hardware, it is not actuall...

The Communications of the ACM recently had several development articles, and I found the one on static analysis tools at Google particularl...

Today I attended Alexei Colin's thesis defense titled, Systems Support for Intermittent Computing. For small, embedded devices, batter...

Today, I went to Michael Sullivan 's thesis defense, who passed.  The work was at a delightful intersection of my interests. We want b...

I have spent significant time on performance issues and have been in search of a book that can summarize the diversity of issues and techniq...

Today is the last day for the conference.  I attended several more talks today and my student took 2nd in the student research competition. ...

Several of the talks were great and very interesting.  Other talks particularly needed further presentation practice.  Unfortunately, someti...

Let me start by saying that tail duplication exists in LLVM, but only as a backend, machine code optimization .  I am going to detail severa...

Compiler optimizations matter.  One time in helping a fellow Ph.D. student improve a simulator's performance, I did two things: first, I...

In parallel programming, most of the time the use of locks is good enough for the application.  And when it is not, then you may need to res...

In the process of grading student programming projects, I discovered that whitespace can matter in how C code is compiled.  Some programmers...

I read an argument recently about whether a test for NULL should be: if (ptr) - or - if (ptr != NULL) Do you know that the assembly fo...

Compiler intrinsics are one of the things that C programmers are often unaware.  Sometimes they know that such a functionality should exist,...

In the second part to the series on pointers, we'll be covering what they point to and how it relates to reality.  Let's consider fo...