The Effects of Parameter Tuning in Software Thread-Level Speculation in JavaScript Engines
(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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- author
- Martinsen, Jan Kasper ; Grahn, Håkan and Isberg, Anders
- publishing date
- 2015
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
- volume
- 11
- issue
- 4
- publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84921280932
- ISSN
- 1544-3973
- DOI
- 10.1145/2686036
- project
- Embedded Applications Software Engineering
- language
- English
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- no
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- 55e6f813-f2b5-48aa-931d-06fe663e6928 (old id 5104518)
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