We present and solve a path optimization problem on programs. Given a set of program nodes, called critical nodes, we find a shortest path through the program's control flow g...
Akash Lal, Junghee Lim, Marina Polishchuk, Ben Lib...
For its high overall cost during product development, program debugging is an important aspect of system development. Debugging is a hard and complex activity, especially in time-...
A primary goal of program performance understanding tools is to focus the user's attention directly on optimization opportunities where significant cost savings may be found....
Path profiles provide a more accurate characterization of a program's dynamic behavior than basic block or edge profiles, but are relatively more expensive to collect. This h...
Kapil Vaswani, Aditya V. Nori, Trishul M. Chilimbi
Statistical debugging aims to automate the process of isolating bugs by profiling several runs of the program and using statistical analysis to pinpoint the likely causes of failu...
Trishul M. Chilimbi, Ben Liblit, Krishna K. Mehra,...