Software Performance Optimisation

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

We might also get drawn into

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.

1/12/05: J. Aldrich, V. Kostadinov, and C. Chambers. Alias annotations for program understanding. In Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), November 2002. pdf
24/11/05: Mohamed Mansour and Karsten Schwan, "I-RMI: Performance Isolation in Service Oriented Architectures," short paper to appear in Middleware 2005.
17/11/05: M. K. Aguilera, J. C. Mogul, J. L. Wiener, P. Reynolds, and A. Muthitacharoen. Performance debugging for distributed systems of black boxes. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Bolton Landing, NY, Oct. 2003. pdf
11/11/05: Tim Harris and Keir Fraser, Concurrent programming without locks.
4/11/05: Programming by Sketching for Bitstreaming Programs Armando Solar-Lezama, Rodric Rabbah, Rastislav Bodik, Kemal Ebcioglu, ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI '05) pdf
28/10/05: Composable Memory Transactions Tim Harris, Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones, Maurice Herlihy. pdf .
21/10/05: Statically Safe Program Generation with SafeGen Shan Shan Huang, David Zook, and Yannis Smaragdakis GPCE'05. pdf