Elegant C

Naama Ben-David gave her proposal this morning on Theoretical Foundations for Modern Multiprocessor Hardware. Is there a theoretical fou...

I previously speculated about how Intel's TSX is implemented ; however, I did not have access to any machines supporting TSX until this ...

Signals  are a mechanism for notifying a process of a simple event.  Most programmers and programs can ignore them, as the default behaviors...

PLDI starts off this morning with Concurrency.  As a student volunteer, I worked this session and was limited as to what I could note about ...

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...

I've written in the past about using intrinsics to improve performance.  And I've discussed using this functionality to build your o...

It was some years ago that I sat in the audience and heard AMD present a sketch for how transactional memory (TM) would be implemented in th...

Having submitted a paper this week to a conference, I have been lax on posting any updates.  With the submission behind me, I shall present ...

With my time dominated by preparing to take PhD qualifying exams (i.e., quals), I have been even more slack than usual with regards to prepa...