Profiling and tuning the performance of an STM-based concurrent program

SPLASH'11 Workshops - Compilation Proceedings of the Co-Located Workshops: DSM'11, TMC'11, AGERE'11, AOOPES'11, NEAT'11, and VMIL'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 105-110

  Pina, Luís ^a   Cachopo, João ^a  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

Author keywords

conflicts; performance; profiling; software transactional memory

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT PROGRAM; CONFLICTS; HARD TASK; MULTI-CORES; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE; PROFILING; REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; SOFTWARE TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY; WRITING CONCURRENT PROGRAMS;

STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

MULTICORE PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84856468979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2095050.2095069     Document Type: Conference Paper

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