Tuesday, 10 May 2005

Light-Weight Instrumentation from Relational Queries Over Program Traces

Good news! OOPSLA 2005 has accepted our paper on Light-Weight Instrumentation From Relational Queries Over Program Traces by Simon Goldsmith, Alex Aiken and me. This is work I did with Simon in the (northern) summer of 2003 while he was an intern at IBM.

I'm glad to see this work get published; I think it's an exciting new area of research. The idea is to express dynamic program analyses (e.g., "how many times does function A get called during an invocation of function B") as SQL-like queries over a database containing a full trace of the program execution --- but instead of actually building such a database, our compiler translates the relational query into instrumentation code that gets injected into the program to evaluate the query on the fly as the program runs.


1 comment:

  1. Sweet, congrats! I'll congratulate Simon in person :). Actually, I got a paper in too, so hopefully I'll see you there.

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