[m-rev.] diff: DJ's and Tom's theses

[Thomas Conway]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 04:37:26PM EST, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:
> +<p>
> +The final part of the new material presented in this thesis
> +presents a new technique for obtaining
> +a detailed and accurate picture of the performance of a program.
> +The basis of our technique is
> +associating a complete context with each measurement,
> +rather than approximating the context as conventional profilers do.
> +In order to make our new profiling system feasible
> +we have had to develop sophisticated techniques
> +for reducing the cost of recording complete contexts;
> +in order to make its output tractable,
> +we also had to develop techniques for dealing with
> +interactions between higher order constructs and recursion.
> +We have also developed a tool for helping programmers
> +(and eventually compilers) to digest the large volume of data
> +generated by our profiling technique.

You might want to include a link here to the live demo
(does it still run?).

Thomas
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