Abstract: A method and device for determining a delay of a gate driven by a driving gate with different ground or supply voltages. The method includes determining from the supply and ground voltages for the driven gate and its driving gate an adjusted supply voltage value, and applying the adjusted supply voltage value as a single voltage parameter to a pre-characterized delay model for the driven gate. The device is structured to perform the method.

Abstract: A computing environment and techniques are provided for processing work out of order in one or more processing contexts. The processing techniques include: determining, for a processing context having an associated stack of waiting resources, whether a last-in listed resource in the stack of waiting resource is available, and if so, resuming processing of a suspended unit of work requiring the last-in listed resource; and determining, otherwise, whether an out of order execution unit of work is available for processing in the context, and if so, processing the out of order execution unit of work while the suspended unit of work awaits the last-in listed resource. Out of order execution units of work can be processed in order from a regular unit of work queue, or out of order from an out of order unit of work queue of a processing context.

Abstract: A method is described for dynamic stitching of a new module of executable code in a parallel processing environment, where access to a data object is shared by the new module and another module previously loaded. A new data object is created for shared access by the new module and by the other module; a data freshness indicator is updated in accordance therewith. A pointer value for the data pointer associated with the other module is modified, thereby terminating reference to an old data object previously accessed and substituting reference to the new data object. A second data freshness indicator is updated in accordance with access by the other module to the new data object. The old data object is deleted when a comparison between freshness indicators shows that access to the old data object is no longer required.