The paper reviews and criticizes the past and current state of comparative studies of economic systems (CSES) for the lack of an analytical framework to back them. An analytical framework is formulated that allows for a changing distribution and interaction of agents along the subsystems, each of which is characterized by distinct and intrinsic institutional rules. The framework studies the con...

Memory subsystems of contemporary processor architectures are typically equipped with a multitude of caches, which make the behavior of the memory subsystem difficult to anticipate especially when the subsystem is shared by multiple running applications. The paper presents early experimental results that dispel some preconceived notions about the memory subsystem, with applications in system de...