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Practical Clojure
VanderHart L., Sierra S., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2010. 232 pp. Type: Book (978-1-430272-31-1)
Clojure is an interesting new language that deserves to have several books written about it, aimed at varying audiences and for different purposes. This book seems to be meant as an introductory tutorial, but is so flawed that I cannot...
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Feb 8 2011 |
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Garbage collection in the next C++ standard
Boehm H., Spertus M. ISMM 2009 (Proceedings of the 2009 International Symposium on Memory Management, Dublin, Ireland, Jun 19-20, 2009) 30-38, 2009. Type: Proceedings
Boehm and Spertus, two key insiders, report on the C++ standards committee’s progress toward supporting automatic storage reclamation and memory leak detection. However, Boehm and Spertus do far more than merely list the rele...
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Oct 2 2009 |
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Implementing aspect-oriented programming constructs as modular language extensions
Van Wyk E. Science of Computer Programming 68(1): 38-61, 2007. Type: Article
Van Wyk provides an extended case study of how his addition of forwarding to attribute grammars can be used to define an extension to a base language. In particular, he shows how a portion of AspectJ’s features can be add...
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Dec 20 2007 |
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Intuition pumps
Dorbolo J. Minds and Machines 16(1): 81-86, 2006. Type: Article
Jon Dorbolo’s brief paper appears in a special issue he edited saluting Daniel Dennett, recipient of the American Philosophical Association’s 2003 Barwise Prize for work at the intersection of philosophy and computi...
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Mar 9 2007 |
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The best of Verity Stob: highlights of Verity Stob’s famous columns from EXE, Dr Dobb’s Journal, and The Register
Stob V., APress, LP, Berkeley, CA, 2005. 316 pp. Type: Book (9781590594421)
That great American expert on humor, Mark Twain, wrote that “the secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.” This quotation describes Stob’s work well. Nearly all of ...
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Nov 29 2005 |
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 Writing for computer science
Zobel J., Springer-Verlag, 2004. Type: Book (9781852338022)
Zobel emphasizes that clarity is well served by brevity. If I attended only to this one lesson, my review would read as follows: buy this book....
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Jan 13 2005 |
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The Transmeta Code Morphing" software: using speculation, recovery, and adaptive retranslation to address real-life challenges
Dehnert J., Grant B., Banning J., Johnson R., Kistler T., Klaiber A., Mattson J. Code generation and optimization (Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization: Feed-directed and Runtime Optimization, San Francisco, California, Mar 23-26, 2003) 15-24, 2003. Type: Proceedings
Crusoe microprocessors combine unnamed very long instruction word (VLIW) hardware with code morphing software (CMS). The CMS uses dynamic binary translation and interpretation to emulate an x86 using the underlying VLIW. This paper is ...
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Aug 2 2004 |
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Digital rights management: technological, economic, and legal and political aspects
Becker E. (ed), Buhse W. (ed), Günnewig D. (ed), Rump N. (ed), Springer-Verlag, 2003. 805 pp. Type: Book (9783540404651)
This volume contains 35 papers, arranged into three sections corresponding to the book’s subtitle: technological, economic, and legal and political. In addition, it contains a very brief introduction by the editors, and concl...
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Apr 27 2004 |
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Instruction Scheduler Generation for Retargetable Compilation
Wahlen O., Hohenauer M., Leupers R., Meyr H. IEEE Design & Test of Computers 20(1): 34-41, 2003. Type: Article
A high-level description of the research in progress on one small portion of an important broader problem--automating the generation of compiler back ends from architecture descriptions--is provided in this paper. The...
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Jan 20 2004 |
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Static and dynamic locality optimizations using integer linear programming
Kandemir M., Banerjee P., Choudhary A., Ramanujam J., Ayguadé E. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 12(9): 922-941, 2001. Type: Article
Previous work, for example Cierniak and Li [1], established that jointly permuting the dimensions of arrays and the loops of loop nests can achieve significant performance gains over either kind of transformation alone, or even the two...
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