[Pl-seminar] Reminder: 12/2 Seminar: Leif Andersen, Feature Specific Profiling for R

[William J. Bowman]

Reminder: Talk this Wednesday!

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 02:33:30PM -0500, William J. Bowman wrote:
> NUPRL Seminar presents
> 
> Leif Andersen
> CCIS Northeastern University
> 
> 12:00--13:30
> Wednesday Dec. 2, 2015
> Room 366 WVH (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/directions.html)
> 
> 
> Feature Specific Profiling for R
> 
> Abstract:
> 
> Programmers use profilers to understand the performance characteristics
> of their programs and to focus on those pieces whose improvement may
> yield the largest gains. A conventional profiler measures the time that
> a program spends in functions, methods, expressions, and statements.
> Racket's novel feature-specific profiler supplements this information
> with timings of instances of linguistic features. This paper reports the
> results of a successful reproducibility effort to adapt feature-specific
> profiling to the R programming language. Specifically, the paper
> demonstrates how easy and effective it is to add the necessary language
> support, that the approach usefully enhances the information produced by
> a classical profiler, and that the additional overhead is tolerable.
> 
> Bio:
> Leif Andersen is a second year Ph.D. student at Northeastern University, studying programming language
> with Matthias Felleisen.
> 
> -- 
> William J. Bowman
> 
> Northeastern University
> College of Computer and Information Science
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