Going Native

Going Native: Faster Architectural Simulation Fast-Forwarding

As system complexity grows, cycle-accurate simulation experiments become inordinately time consuming. Most approaches to accelerating architectural simulation model only portions of an application in detail. Detailed simulation begins with architectural state from earlier portions of the execution. Constructing this requires fast-forwarding: modeling effects of earlier instructions without mode...

Going Native. Emotion Science in the Twenty-First Century

Going native? Flower use by bumblebees in English urban gardens.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Although urban gardens provide opportunities for pollinators in an otherwise inhospitable environment, most garden plants are not native to the recipient biogeographical region and their value to local pollinators is disputed. This study tested the hypothesis that bumblebees foraging in English urban gardens preferentially visited sympatric Palaearctic-range plants over spec...

Going Native: Using a Large-Scale Analysis of Android Apps to Create a Practical Native-Code Sandboxing Policy

Current static analysis techniques for Android applications operate at the Java level—that is, they analyze either the Java source code or the Dalvik bytecode. However, Android allows developers to write code in C or C++ that is cross-compiled to multiple binary architectures. Furthermore, the Java-written components and the native code components (C or C++) can interact. Native code can access...

Going, going, gone

The decline and loss of species is inevitable in the face of growing human pressures on the environment but, according to one group of senior researchers, a standard framework is needed to assess the rate of this decline if researchers wish to be effective and policymakers are to take note.