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The Effects of Parameter Tuning in Software Thread-Level Speculation in JavaScript Engines

Martinsen, Jan Kasper ; Grahn, Håkan and Isberg, Anders (2015) In ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) 11(4).
Abstract
JavaScript is a sequential programming language that has a large potential for parallel execution in Web applications. Thread-level speculation can take advantage of this, but it has a large memory overhead. In this article, we evaluate the effects of adjusting various parameters for thread-level speculation. Our results clearly show that thread-level speculation is a useful technique for taking advantage of multicore architectures for JavaScript in Web applications, that nested speculation is required in thread-level speculation, and that the execution characteristics of Web applications significantly reduce the needed memory, the number of threads, and the depth of our speculation.
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ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
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1544-3973
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10.1145/2686036
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Embedded Applications Software Engineering
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  author       = {{Martinsen, Jan Kasper and Grahn, Håkan and Isberg, Anders}},
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  number       = {{4}},
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  series       = {{ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)}},
  title        = {{The Effects of Parameter Tuning in Software Thread-Level Speculation in JavaScript Engines}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2686036}},
  doi          = {{10.1145/2686036}},
  volume       = {{11}},
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