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GPCE 2016
Mon 31 October - Tue 1 November 2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands
co-located with SPLASH 2016
Mon 31 Oct 2016 13:30 - 14:00 at Zürich 1 - Generative Programming II Chair(s): Ulrik Pagh Schultz

Nowadays, many virtual execution environments benefit from concurrency offered by the actor model. Unfortunately, while actors are used in many applications and computing frameworks, existing profiling tools are little effective in analyzing the performance of applications using actors. In this paper, we present a new instrumentation-based technique to profile actors in virtual execution environments. Our technique adopts platform-independent profiling metrics that minimize the perturbations induced by the instrumentation logic and allow comparing profiling results across different platforms. In particular, our technique measures the initialization cost, the amount of executed computations, and the messages sent and received by each actor. We implement our technique within a profiling tool for Akka actors on the Java platform. Evaluation results show that our profiling technique can help performance analysis of actor utilization and communication between actors in large-scale computing frameworks.

Mon 31 Oct

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13:30 - 15:10
Generative Programming IIGPCE at Zürich 1
Chair(s): Ulrik Pagh Schultz University of Southern Denmark
13:30
30m
Talk
Actor Profiling in Virtual Execution Environments
GPCE
Andrea Rosà Università della Svizzera italiana, Lydia Y. Chen IBM Research Lab Zurich, Walter Binder University of Lugano
14:00
30m
Talk
Bootstrapping Domain-Specific Meta-Languages in Language Workbenches
GPCE
Gabriël Konat Delft University of Technology, Sebastian Erdweg Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, Eelco Visser Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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14:30
30m
Talk
Dependence-Driven Delimited CPS Transformation for JavaScript
GPCE
Laure Philips Software Languages Lab, Joeri De Koster Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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