Large functions that are frequently executed, i.e. hot, are common in non-numeric applications. These functions present challenges to modern compilers not only because they require more time and resources for compilation, but also because they might degrade runtime performance by preventing optimizations such as function inlining. Fortunately, often large portions of the code in hot functions a...

Few topics have generated more debate and contro­ versy in the scientific literature over the past few years than the biological and behavioural origins of an a to ­ mically ‘m odern’ hum an populations: i.e. populations belonging to our own form of Homo sapiens sapiens. W hat is common ground in all these debates is that populations that were fundam entally ‘m odern’ in both a basic anatom ica...

In this dissertation we investigate compiler techniques to address the performance problems caused by heterogeneous execution frequency of code in the same function and heterogeneous access pattern of fields in the same data structure. These heterogeneous characteristics are bad for performance. On one hand, it is frequent that instructions in the same function have very different execution fre...

the purpose of the present study is to develop appropriate scoring scales for each of the defined stages of the writing process, and also to determine to what extent these scoring scales can reliably and validly assess the performances of efl learners in an academic writing task. two hundred and two students’ writing samples were collected after a step-by-step process oriented essay writing ins...