CROM: Faster web browsing using speculative execution

Proceedings of NSDI 2010: 7th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 127-142

  Mickens, James ^a   Elson, Jeremy ^a   Howell, Jon ^a   Lorch, Jay ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC; CUSTOM SOLUTIONS; EVENT-HANDLERS; NETWORK DELAYS; PREFETCHING TECHNIQUES; REAL APPLICATIONS; SPECULATIVE EXECUTION; WEB APPLICATION;

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

EID: 85076738902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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