[Colloq] Thesis Defense - Vincent St-Amour - How to Generate Actionable Advice About Performance Problems - April 24, 2pm - 366 WVH

[Fong, Andy]

Time: April 24th, 2pm

Place: 366



Title: How to Generate Actionable Advice about Performance Problems



Abstract:



Performance engineering is an important activity regardless of application domain, as critical for server software as for mobile applications. This activity, however, demands advanced, specialized skills that require a significant time investment to acquire, and are therefore absent from most programmers' toolboxes.



My thesis is that tool support can make performance engineering both accessible and time-efficient for non-expert programmers. To support this claim, my work introduces two novel families of performance tools that are designed specifically to provide actionable information to

programmers: optimization coaches and feature-specific profilers. This dissertation presents blueprints for building tools in these families, and provides examples from tools that I have built.





Committee:

Matthias Felleisen (advisor), Northeastern University Olin Shivers, Northeastern University Kathryn McKinley, Microsoft Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University David Van Horn, University of Maryland


Andrew W. Fong
Assistant Director for Graduate Admissions and Enrollment

Northeastern University
College of Computer and Information Science
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a.fong at neu.edu