Vertical profiling: Understanding the behavior of object-oriented applications

19th Annual ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA'04

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 251-269

  Hauswirth, Matthias ^a   Diwan, Amer ^a   Sweeney, Peter F ^b   Hind, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hardware performance monitors; Perturbation; Software performance monitors; Vertical profiling; Whole system analysis

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE PERFORMANCE MONITORS; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE MONITORS; VERTICAL PROFILING; WHOLE-SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER HARDWARE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PERFORMANCE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SERVERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 12844288604     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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