Software developers are frequently required to address evolving stakeholder concerns, which often result in changes to the source code of an application. Manually performing invas...
In profiling, a tradeoff exists between information and overhead. For example, hardware-sampling profilers incur negligible overhead, but the information they collect is consequen...
Tipp Moseley, Alex Shye, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Dirk ...
Program instrumentation, inserted either before or during execution, is rapidly becoming a necessary component of many systems. Instrumentation is commonly used to collect informa...
This paper presents a novel profiling approach, which is entirely based on program transformation techniques in order to enable exact profiling, preserving complete call stacks, m...
Profiling tools relate measurements to code context such as function names in order to guide code optimization. For a more detailed analysis, call path or phase-based profiling enh...