MIME-Version: 1.0 Server: CERN/3.0 Date: Monday, 06-Jan-97 21:26:18 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 2415 Last-Modified: Wednesday, 31-Jan-96 16:51:33 GMT Sheetal V. Kakkad - Publications

Sheetal V. Kakkad - Publications

The Texas Persistent Store

Texas is an easy-to-use persistent storage system for C++. It supports large addresses efficiently on standard hardware, using a technique called pointer swizzling at page fault time.
  1. Vivek Singhal, Sheetal Kakkad, and Paul R. Wilson. Texas: An Efficient, Portable Persistent Store. In Persistent Object Systems: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems, San Miniato, Italy, September 1992, pages 11-33.Springer-Verlag Workshops in Computing.

    This paper provides a detailed description of Texas, its motivations, and its algorithms. more...

  2. Paul R. Wilson and Sheetal V. Kakkad. Pointer Swizzling at Page Fault Time: Efficiently and Compatibly Supporting Huge Addresses on Standard Hardware. In International Workshop on Object Orientation in Operating Systems, Paris, France, September 1992, pages 364-377. IEEE Press.

    This paper provides a detailed description of the pointer swizzling technique. more...

  3. Vivek Singhal, Sheetal Kakkad, and Paul Wilson. Texas: Good, Fast, Cheap Persistence for C++. In OOPSLA '92 Addendum to the Proceedings, OOPS Messenger, 4(2):145-147, April 1993.

    A shorter description of the Texas paper. This summarizes our poster at OOPSLA '92.

Memory Hierarchy Studies

  1. Paul R. Wilson, Sheetal V. Kakkad and Shubhendu Mukherjee. Anomalies and Adaptation in the Analysis and Development of Prefetching Policies. Journal of Systems and Software, 27(2):147-153, November 1994. Technical communication.

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January 29, 1996
Sheetal V. Kakkad
Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
svkakkad@cs.utexas.edu