Rethinking the library OS from the top down

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 291-304

  Porter, Donald E ^b   Boyd Wickizer, Silas ^c   Howell, Jon ^a   Olinsky, Reuben ^a   Hunt, Galen C ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Performance

Indexed keywords

ADDRESS SPACE; EXPERIMENTATION; INTERNET EXPLORERS; MICROSOFT EXCEL; PERFORMANCE; POWERPOINT; PRAGMATIC REUSE; SYSTEM EVOLUTION; SYSTEM INTEGRITY; SYSTEM SECURITY; TOPDOWN; TYPICAL APPLICATION; VIRTUAL MACHINES; WORKING SET;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 84863835377     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2248487.1950399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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