Benchmarking usability and performance of multicore languages

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 183-192

  Nanz, Sebastian ^a   West, Scott ^a   Da Silveira, Kaue Soares ^b   Meyer, Bertrand ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GOOGLE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK PROGRAMS; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; MULTI CORE; MULTI-CORE COMPUTING; PARALLEL VERSION; SOURCE CODES; THREADING BUILDING BLOCKS;

EXPERIMENTS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84893274770     PISSN: 19493770     EISSN: 19493789     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2013.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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