A refactoring approach to parallelism

IEEE Software

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-22

  Dig, Danny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrency; Parallelism; Refactoring

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENCY; ERROR PRONES; LINES OF CODE; MULTI CORE; PARALLEL OPERATIONS; PARALLEL PROGRAM; PARALLELISM; PROGRAM PERFORMANCE; PROGRAMMER PRODUCTIVITY; PROGRAMMING TASKS; REFACTORING TOOLS; REFACTORINGS; SEQUENTIAL PROGRAMS; TOOLSETS;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 78650657848     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2011.1     Document Type: Article

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