How can we find the sources of bloat in applications?

Identifying an application's problematic "hot areas."


The IBM Open Collaborative Research (OCR) program encourages computer scientists to develop open-source code that will improve the quality of software applications for industry, government and community-based organizations.


Gary Sevitsky

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Listen (below) to Gary's podcast presentation about the blended analysis software project he is working on with Barbara Ryder from Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey.

Download the mp3 file, 8 min., 32 sec.Read the transcript
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Producer: Barbara Finkelstein, IBM Corporation
Music: Todd Rice. Copyright 1999

Related resources
Blended analysis for performance understanding of framework-based applications (pdf), ISSTA’07, London. July 9 -12, 2007. Barbara Ryder, Gary Sevitsky and Bruno Dufour define a new analysis paradigm -- blended program analysis -- that enables practical, effective analysis of large framework-based Java applications for performance understanding.

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Last updated May 29, 2008