Uncovering performance problems in Java applications with reference propagation profiling

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 134-144

  Yan, Dacong ^a   Xu, Guoqing ^b   Rountev, Atanas ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODE OPTIMIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; JAVA APPLICATIONS; JAVA PROGRAM; MEMORY USAGE; OBJECT CREATION; OBJECT REFERENCE; PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS; PROPAGATION GRAPH; RUN-TIME EXECUTION; RUNTIMES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 84864193967     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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