Vortragsdetails

Software as a natural phenomenon: Applying digital signal processing methods to observability, debugging and refactoring

von Alexander Gorshenev (Sun Microsystems), Roman Shaposhnik (Sun microsystems inc.)

Donnerstag, 31.05.2007, Forum Messehalle, 11:00-12:00 Uhr

Battling software complexity has been a constant struggle for the developers since the day ENIAC got built. And even though there seems to be no shortage of tools and techniques specifically designed to address this very issue, each next software project we create appears to be more difficult to comprehend than a previous one. It would be fair to say that software in general slowly turns into a natural phenomenon which we have to study, analyze and predict. Come to this session to learn how one of the most helpful tools of physics: a signal analysis can be applied to gain a quick insight into the innerworkings of any arbitrary piece of software.

Über den Autor Alexander Gorshenev:

When he was in the age of 10 his favorite toy was a soviet programmable microcalculator B3-21. Now he has grown up and develops compilers at Sun. He has seen the compilers from the bottom to the top: from C language front end to the optimizer and to the x64 code generator.
Recently Alexander took part in the Linux port of Sun's compilers.

Über den Autor Roman Shaposhnik:

Roman Shaposhnik started his career in compilers back in '94 when he had to write a translator for the programming language he'd just invented (the language was so weird -- nobody else wanted to do the job). As an avid Linux user and an occasional kernel developer he's been always interested in bring the power of Sun's compilers to Linux. His wish was granted on Jan 1, 2005 when he was put in charge of the Sun Studio Compilers for Linux project, which aims at making "the compiler" synonymous with Sun Studio.