LiteRace: Effective sampling for lightweight data-race detection

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 134-143

  Marino, Daniel ^a   Musuvathi, Madanlal ^b   Narayanasamy, Satish ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrency bugs; Dynamic data race detection; Sampling

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENCY BUGS; DATA RACES; DATA-RACE DETECTORS; DYNAMIC DATA; FIREFOX; LARGE PROGRAMS; LOW FREQUENCY; MEMORY ACCESS; MICROSOFT; MULTI-THREADED PROGRAMS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PROGRAM EXECUTION; RACE DETECTION; STATIC TECHNIQUES;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 70450242740     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1542476.1542491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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