Languages and performance engineering: method, instrumentation, and pedagogy

TitleLanguages and performance engineering: method, instrumentation, and pedagogy
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsLea, D, Bacon DF, Grove D
JournalSIGPLAN Not.
Volume43
Pagination87–92
ISSN0362-1340
Keywordsprogramming languages curriculum
Abstract

Programs encounter increasingly complex and fragile mappings to computing platforms, resulting in performance characteristics that are often mysterious to students, practitioners, and even researchers. We discuss some steps toward an experimental methodology that demands and provides a deep understanding of complete systems, the necessary instrumentation and tools to support such a methodology, and a curriculum that teaches the methodology and tools as a fundamental part of the discipline.

URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1480828.1480848
DOI10.1145/1480828.1480848
Refereed DesignationUnknown