Software performance optimisation reading group

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The focus for our weekly reading group is software performance optimisation with specific emphasis on:

• cross-component optimisation
• run-time optimisation
• profile-driven optimisation
• adaptive optimisation, iterative compilation, self-optimisation, architecture-cognizance
• the use of metadata, summary information and generating extensions in run-time optimisation

• performance issues in operating systems and distributed object-oriented applications
• static analysis, especially with respect to pointers, aliasing, escape analysis etc
• custom computing, reconfigurable hardware, codesign, hardware-software co-optimisation
• Optimising communications protocols to reduce the number of messages, and improve concurrency.

This is a development of the earlier focus on performance optimisation of component-based software; for details see here.

Past meetings

You can find a list of the papers we have been reading here (with thanks to Wes Hinsley).