@inproceedings{ren2017programming,
author = {Ren, Jinglei and Hu, Qingda and Khan, Samira and Moscibroda, Thomas},
title = {Programming for Non-Volatile Main Memory Is Hard},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys '17)},
year = {2017},
month = {September},
abstract = {Using non-volatile memory as main memory (NVMM) can largely improve the performance of applications, but adds to the challenge of programming -- it turns out to be very error-prone to write real-world NVMM programs, especially with object-oriented programming. This paper presents a field study of erroneous NVMM programs written by programmers who are trained to use a general NVMM programming interface. We performed the field study in a training workshop of 30 participants. Our observations and derived best practices offer a reference for future NVMM programming techniques design. Toward that end, we propose a taxonomy of latest NVMM programming techniques and, accordingly, a set of paradigms that can reduce the risk of NVMM-specific bugs. The paradigms incorporate a minimal NVMM library interface design and a new design pattern inspired by the field study.},
publisher = {ACM},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/programming-non-volatile-main-memory-hard/},
pages = {13:01-13:08},
edition = {8th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys)},
}