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Conclusions

 

Data races are a serious problem inherent to multi-threaded programs. There exist a number of general techniques to combat data races but they are slow and very intrusive. In this article, we have introduced a new technique, TRaDe, that uses information about the changing topology of the objects interconnection graph to more efficiently detect data races. Despite the fact that TRaDe does not cut corners while doing data race detection, it is faster than all known competition and comparable to the best in memory usage.



Mark Christiaens
Fri Feb 23 11:13:35 MET 2001