Research
- Improving memory performance is a very important
problem because modern hardwares have an increasingly larger memory
gap. My main focus is to leverage memory manager and compiler to
improve memory performance for object oriented programs.
Selected Publications
DCR: Xianglong Huang, Steve Blackburn, David Grove,
and Kathryn S McKinley.
Fast and
Efficient Partial Code Reordering: Taking Advantage of Dynamic
Recompilation, to apprear in the International Symposium on
Memory Management (ISMM), Ottawa, Canada, June 2006.
DCM: Xianglong Huang, Brian T Lewis, Kathryn S McKinley. Dynamic Code Management: Effective Algorithms for Full Code Locality Optimization in Managed Runtimes, In the Second International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE), Ottawa, Canada, June 2006.
OOR: Xianglong Huang, Stephen M Blackburn, Kathryn
S
McKinley, J Eliot B Moss, Zhenlin Wang, Perry Cheng. The
Garbage Collection Advantage: Improving Program Locality,
In the proceeding of 19th Annual ACM Conference on Object-Oriented
Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2004)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Oct. 2004.
DSS:
Huang, Xianglong, J. Eliot B. Moss, Kathryn S. Mckinley, Steve
Blackburn, and Doug Burger.
"Dynamic SimpleScalar: Simulating Java
Virtual Machines."
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences.
Technical Report TR-03-03.
February 2003. The latest link
for DSS.
Impulse:Xianglong Huang, Zhenlin Wang, Kathryn S.
McKinley. Compiling
for the Impulse Memory Controller , In the proceedings
of The 10th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and
Compilation Techniques (PACT 2001). Barcelona, Spain, Sep.
2001.
Loop transformation:Xianglong Huang, Steve Carr, and Phil
Sweany. Loop
Transformations for Architectures with
Partitioned Register Banks In the
proceedings of Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded
Systems (LCTES 2001). Snowbird, Utah, June 2001.
Multi-Thread Library:
1. Michael Bedy, Steve Carr, Xianglong Huang, and
Ching-Kuang Shene,
"A Visualization
System for Multithreaded Programming", in the
Proceedings of the 31st Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium on
Computer Science Education, March 2000.
2. Michael Bedy, Steve Carr, Xianglong Huang, and
Ching-Kuang Shene,
"The Design and
Construction of a User-Level Kernel for Teaching
Multithreaded Programming",
ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 1999.