Peter F. Sweeney's publications

Recent Work
	Adaptive Optimization in the Jalapeño JVM: The Controller's Analytical Model M. Arnold, S. Fink, D. Grove, M. Hind and P.F. Sweeney Accepted for publication at the 3rd ACM Workshop on Feedback-Directed and Dynamic Optmization (FDDO-3), Monterey, California, December 10, 2000. Preprint Preprint
	This paper outlines several open questions in developing a more accurate controller model that determines, while a program is running, what methods to optimize. We present two experiments that study the effects of how the current model predicts furture executions from the past, a limited experimental evaluation of stability of the current model across applications, and describe our ongoing efforets to improve the Jalape$ntilde;o controller.
	Extracting Library-Based Object-Oriented Applications P.F. Sweeney and F. Tip Foundations on Software Engineering (FSE) 2000 Conference Proceedings (San Diego, CA) November 2000. Preprint Preprint
	In an increasingly popular model of software distribution, software that is developed in one computing environment is transfer over the internet and deployed in other environments. Extraction tools perform a static whole-program analysis to determine unused functionality in applications in order to reduce the time required to download applications. This work identifies the information that an extraction tool can not infer through static analysis.
	Adaptive Optimization in the Jalapeño JVM M. Arnold, S. Fink, D. Grove, M. Hind and P.F. Sweeney OOPSLA 2000 Conference Proceedings: Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, (Minneapolis, Minnesota), pages 47-65, October 2000. Also published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices 35(10). Preprint Preprint
	Future high performance virtual machines will improve performance through sophisticated online feedback-directed optimizations. This paper presents the architecture of the Jalapeño Adaptive Optimization System, a system to support leading-edge virtual machine technology and enable ongoing research on online feedback-directed optimizations.
	Approximating the Calling Context Tree Via Sampling M. Arnold, and P.F. Sweeney IBM Research Report RC 21789, July 2000. Preprint Preprint
	The calling context tree (CCT) is a data structure for recording context-sensitive profiling information. The CCT can be expensive to construct since it requires instrumenting all procedure entries and exits. This paper presents an algorithm for constructing an approximate CCT (ACCT) by performing periodic call-stack sampling. Results from a preliminary implementation are reported validating the accuracy of our technique.
	A Comparative Study of Static and Dynamic Heuristics for Inlining M. Arnold, S. Fink, V. Sarkar and P.F. Sweeney Dynamo'00 Workshop Proceedings: ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Dynamic and Adaptive Compilation and Optimization, (Boston, MA), January 2000. Preprint Preprint
	This paper presents a comparative study of static and dynamic heuristics for inlining. We present performance results for an implementation of these inlining heuristics in the Jalapeño dynamic optimizing compiler for Java. Our performance results show that the inlining heuristics studied in this paper can lead to significant speedups in execution time (up to 1.68 X's) even with modest limits on code size expansion (at most 10%).
	Quantifying and Evaluating the Space Overhead in C++ Memory Layouts P.F. Sweeney and M. Burke Accepted for publication in Software Practice & Experience. Also published as an IBM Research Report RC 21370, April 1999.
	This paper develops a formalism that precisely characterizes when class tables are required for C++ memory layouts. A memory layout is a particular choice of data structures for implementing run-time support for object-oriented languages. We use this formalism and other techniques to quantify and evaluate, on a set of benchmarks, the space overhead for a set of C++ memory layouts. Applying our approach to a set of five benchmarks, we demonstrate that the impact of object-oriented space overhead can vary dramatically between applications (ranging from 0.42% to 99.79% for our benchmarks).
Journal Articles
	Class Hierarchy Specialization F. Tip and P.F. Sweeney Published in Acta Informatica (2000) 36, 927-982.
Refereed Publications
	Adaptive Optimization in the Jalapeño JVM: The Controller's Analytical Model M. Arnold, S. Fink, D. Grove, M. Hind and P.F. Sweeney Accepted for publication at the 3rd ACM Workshop on Feedback-Directed and Dynamic Optmization (FDDO-3), Monterey, California, December 10, 2000. Preprint Preprint
	Extracting Library-Based Object-Oriented Applications P.F. Sweeney and F. Tip Foundations on Software Engineering (FSE) 2000 Conference Proceedings (San Diego, CA) November 2000. Preprint Preprint
	Adaptive Optimization in the Jalapeño JVM M. Arnold, S. Fink, D. Grove, M. Hind and P.F. Sweeney OOPSLA 2000 Conference Proceedings: Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, (Minneapolis, Minnesota), pages 47-65, October 2000. Also published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices 35(10). Preprint Preprint
	A Comparative Study of Static and Dynamic Heuristics for Inlining M. Arnold, S. Fink, V. Sarkar and P.F. Sweeney Dynamo'00 Workshop Proceedings: ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Dynamic and Adaptive Compilation and Optimization, (Boston, MA), January 2000. Preprint Preprint
	Space- and Time-Efficient Memory Layout for Multiple Inheritance J. Gil and P.F. Sweeney OOPSLA'99 Conference Proceedings: Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, (Denver, Colorado), pages 256-275, October 1999. Also published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices 34(10). Preprint Preprint
	Practical Experience with an Application Extractor for Java F. Tip, C. Laffra, P.F. Sweeney and D. Streeter OOPSLA'99 Conference Proceedings: Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, (Denver, Colorado), pages 292-305, October 1999. Also published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices 34(10). Copyright 1999 © by ACM, Inc.
	A Study of Dead Data Members in C++ Applications P.F. Sweeney and F. Tip PLDI'98 Conference Proceedings: Programming Language Design and Implementation, (PLDI'98), (Montreal, Canada), pages 324-333, June 1998. Also published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices 33(6). Preprint Preprint
	Class Hierarchy Specialization F. Tip and P.F. Sweeney OOPSLA'97 Conference Proceedings: Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, (Atlanta, Georgia), pages 271-285, October 1997. Also published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices 32(10). Preprint Preprint
	Fast Static Analysis of Virtual Function Calls D. Bacon and P.F. Sweeney OOPSLA'96 Conference Proceedings: Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, (San Jose, California), pages 324-341, October 1996. Also published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices 31(10). Preprint Preprint
	Visualizing the Execution of High Performance Fortran (HPF) Programs D. Kimelman, P. Mittal, E. Schonberg, P. F. Sweeney, K.-Y. Wang and D. Zernik IPPS'95 Symposium Proceedings: International Parallel Processing Symposium, April 1995.
	PTRAN II: A Compiler for High Performance Fortran M. Gupta, S. Midkiff, E. Schonberg, P. Sweeney, K.-Y. Wang and M. Burke Fourth International Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computers, (Delft, Netherlands), pages 479-493, December 1993.
	Coordinating Concurrent Development W. H. Harrison, H. Ossher, and P. F. Sweeney CSCW'90 Conference Proceedings: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, (Los Angeles, CA), pages 157-168, October 1990. Preprint Preprint
	Incremental Evaluation of Computational Circuits B. Alpern, R. Hoover, B.K. Rosen, P. Sweeney, and F.K. Zadeck SODA'90 Conference Proceedings: First Annual ASM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, (San Francisco, CA), pages 32-42, January, 1990. Copyright 1990 © by ACM, Inc.
	Good News, Bad News: Experience Building a Software Development Environment Using the Object-Oriented Paradigm W. H. Harrison, J. J. Shilling and P. F. Sweeney OOPSLA'89 Conference Proceedings: Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, (New Orleans, LA), pages 85-94, October 1989. Also published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices 24(10). Copyright 1989 © by ACM, Inc.
	Three Steps to Views: Extending the Object-Oriented Paradigm J. J. Shilling and P. F. Sweeney OOPSLA'89 Conference Proceedings: Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, (New Orleans, LA), pages 353-362, October 1989. Also published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices 24(10). Copyright 1989 © by ACM, Inc.
	Maintaining Versions in a Structure-Based Environment J. J. Shilling and P. F. Sweeney IWSVCC'88 Workshop Proceedings: International Workshop on Software Version and Configuration Control, (Grassau, FRG), Editor Jurgen F.H. Winkler, pages 457-460, January 1988.
	Graph Attribution as a Specification Paradigm B. Alpern, A. Carle, B. Rosen, P. Sweeney and K. Zadeck PSDE'88 Symposium Proceedings: ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN Software Engineering Symposium on Practical Software Development Environments, pages 121-129, 1988. Copyright 1988 © by ACM, Inc.
Sampling of Research Reports
	Approximating the Calling Context Tree Via Sampling M. Arnold, and P.F. Sweeney P.F. Sweeney IBM Research Report RC 21789, July 2000. Research Report Research Report
	Evaluating Virtual Dispatch Mechanisms for C++ M. Burke, H. Srinivasan and P.F. Sweeney IBM Research Report RC 20330, January 1996.
	A Framework for Evaluating Space and Time Costs of C++ Object Models M. Burke, H. Srinivasan, and P. Sweeney IBM Research Report RC 20421, declassified January 1998.

Last modified 5 December 2000 by Peter F. Sweeney

Peter F. Sweeney's publications

Recent Work

Journal Articles

Refereed Publications

Sampling of Research Reports