Optimizing pointer linked data structures

The thesis explores different ways of optimizing pointer linked data structures, and especially restructuring them. The mechanisms are based on compiler technology, theory, computer languages and hardware architecture that are capable of optimizing the memory layout of complex pointer linked data structures.Computer Systems, Imagery and Medi

Programming Languages and Systems

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 29th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2020, which was planned to take place in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2020, as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2020. The actual ETAPS 2020 meeting was postponed due to the Corona pandemic. The papers deal with fundamental issues in the specification, design, analysis, and implementation of programming languages and systems

Energy recovery from solid waste. Volume 2: Technical report

A systems analysis of energy recovery from solid waste demonstrates the feasibility of several current processes for converting solid waste to an energy form. The social, legal, environmental, and political factors are considered in depth with recommendations made in regard to new legislation and policy. Biodegradation and thermal decomposition are the two areas of disposal that are considered with emphasis on thermal decomposition. A technical and economic evaluation of a number of available and developing energy-recovery processes is given. Based on present technical capabilities, use of prepared solid waste as a fuel supplemental to coal seems to be the most economic process by which to recover energy from solid waste. Markets are considered in detail with suggestions given for improving market conditions and for developing market stability. A decision procedure is given to aid a community in deciding on its options in dealing with solid waste, and a new pyrolysis process is suggested. An application of the methods of this study are applied to Houston, Texas

Robust Verteilte Software Transaktionen für Haskell

This thesis motivates and develops a robust distributed Software Transactional Memory (STM) library for Haskell. Many real-life applications are distributed by nature. They either control geographically wide spread hardware resources or utilize redundant hardware components to minimize system failure. STM is an abstraction for synchronizing shared resources in concurrent applications. It helps to prevent deadlocks and thus facilitates composing program code. We extend the STM abstraction to distributed systems and present an implementation efficient enough to be used in soft real-time applications. Further, the implemented library is robust in itself, offering the application developer a high abstraction level to realize robustness, hence, significantly simplifying this, in general, complex task.Die vorliegende Arbeit motiviert und entwickelt eine robuste, verteilte Software Transactional Memory (STM) Bibliothek für Haskell. Viele reale Anwendungen sind von Natur aus verteilt. Sie steuern entweder geografisch weit verteilte Ressourcen oder nutzen redundante Hardware-Komponenten, um Systemfehler zu verringern. STM ist eine Abstraktion, um gemeinsame Ressourcen in nebenläufigen Anwendungen zu synchronisieren. Sie hilft Verklemmungen zu verhindern und vereinfacht dadurch die Komposition des Programmcodes. Wir erweitern die STM-Abstraktion auf verteilte Systeme und präsentieren eine Implementierung, die effizient genug ist, um in weichen Echtzeit-Anwendungen genutzt zu werden. Weiterhin ist die implementierte Bibliothek selbst robust und bietet damit dem Anwendungsprogrammierer ein hohes Maß an Abstraktion, um Robustheit zu verwirklichen, was ihm diese, im Allgemeinen, komplexe Aufgabe deutlich erleichtert

Textual Refuse: Iain Sinclair's Politics and Poetics of Refusal

This thesis directs scholarly attention and recognition to contemporary British writer Iain Sinclair, whose textual refusals provide an alternative model of cultural production to those prescribed by late era capitalism. In doing so, it considers Sinclair's engagement with the notion of refuse. As Walter Benjamin's work eloquently testifies, reading "the rags, the refuse" reveals much about the constitution of culture. Refuse is an integral element of the everyday, and of modern consumer culture. As such, there are compelling reasons for it to be brought to the fore as a topic for study. To recognise the potential and possibilities of refuse is to refuse the ideological and structurating machinery of capitalism, which has devised systems to render refuse invisible and invalid. In many ways, Sinclair creates and brings to light what dominant culture has attempted to bury: counter-cultural poetics, indeterminate narratives, alternative histories. Sinclair's "textua l refuse" is the visible scriptural manifestation of those subterranean histories that hegemonic culture has sought to forget, omit and/or discount. In any economy that fetishises the commodity, Sinclair's association with the marginalised realm of refuse is politicised, and similarly his creation of textual refuse is politicised activity. Sinclair's textual refuse is a refusal of the commodification of literature. Within the theoretical framework of this thesis, refuse is neither failure nor negation. This thesis promotes Sinclair's refusals as dynamic acts; their ruptures and blockages are not impasses, but are, instead, productive. Given the inextricable link between refuse and contemporary production and consumption, Sinclair's engagements with refuse double as an argument for his timeliness and relevance as subject of academic enquiry

The Collected Books of Richard Denner Volume 11

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Accidental Archivism: Shaping Cinema's Futures with Remnants of the Past

In the digital media ecology, archives are changing. Artists, curators, critics and scholars assume the role of accidental archivists. They shape cinema's futures by salvaging precarious repositories and making them matter in new ways. In the process, the cinema's public, a democratic body seemingly scattered about platforms and niches in a post-pandemic world, re-emerges as a political force. 'Accidental Archivism' brings together programmatic statements and proposals to explore an artistic space between archiving and activism, a space where remnants of the past become the building blocks of new ways of making, showing, teaching and thinking cinema

Hoarding and the Cult of Money

As a category of psychological diagnosis, Hoarding Disorder has spawned a conception of “the hoarder” marked by social exclusion, a habitual urge to possess objects, and an apparent difficulty in disposing them. Against this limited definition, which stems from a lack of long-term historical and social awareness among scholars of hoarding disorder, my work asks, How is hoarding logical? Can we read hoarding as non-pathological or adaptive? What kind of monuments and record have historical hoarders left behind? Proceeding from the longer etymology of the word, hoard, and coupled with oral history interviews drawn from my own life, this thesis recasts “hoarding” as more complex than the current paradigm implies, pertaining to the rise of capitalism, commodity fetishism, and broader forms of socio-economic reciprocity which preceded and responded to formal and informal empire. Supported by historical documents from major thinkers in political economy, classical Liberalism, Marxism, Social Anthropology, and Neoliberalism, alongside periodical documents from nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain and the United States, I argue that hoarding among the poor and socially vulnerable, such as those affected by post-colonialism, deindustrialization, austerity, statelessness, etc., may be reread as a mode of economic survival and social investment, if the economic idiosyncrasies of an individual hoarder’s subjective lifeworld and context are taken into consideration. In tandem with this line of reasoning, I argue that hoarding is a spectrum of behavior that also includes more ‘normative’ behaviors of the super-wealthy, including cash and land hoarding. This thesis uses oral history, with cultural, anthropological, and literary sources, to shift the language around hoarding and to present it as an underlying logic of capitalism, as a mediator of interpersonal and family relationships, and as a dangerous extension of twentieth-century empire, functioning through hegemonic, legal, but deeply unethical institutions and financial tools such as major accountancy firms, central banks, international tax havens, and international corporations. Using sentimental objects from personal collections, I situate myself as embedded within history, and at the cusp of different economic and cultural worlds, wherein objects are read as unique signifiers of memory and meaning