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WCRE
1999
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
A Formal Approach for Reverse Engineering: A Case Study
As a program evolves, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand and reason about changes in the source code. Eventually, if enough changes are made, reverse engineering and ...
Gerald C. Gannod, Betty H. C. Cheng
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Dynamic program analysis of Microsoft Windows applications
—Software instrumentation is a powerful and flexible technique for analyzing the dynamic behavior of programs. By inserting extra code in an application, it is possible to study...
Alex Skaletsky, Tevi Devor, Nadav Chachmon, Robert...
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SIGMETRICS
2004
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
Myths and realities: the performance impact of garbage collection
This paper explores and quantifies garbage collection behavior for three whole heap collectors and generational counterparts: copying semi-space, mark-sweep, and reference counti...
Stephen M. Blackburn, Perry Cheng, Kathryn S. McKi...
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PLDI
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Chameleon: adaptive selection of collections
Languages such as Java and C#, as well as scripting languages like Python, and Ruby, make extensive use of Collection classes. A collection implementation represents a fixed choic...
Ohad Shacham, Martin T. Vechev, Eran Yahav
VMCAI
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Finding Concurrency-Related Bugs Using Random Isolation
This paper describes the methods used in Empire, a tool to detect concurrency-related bugs, namely atomic-set serializability violations in Java programs. The correctness criterion...
Nicholas Kidd, Thomas W. Reps, Julian Dolby, Manda...