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Optimization Coaching for JavaScript (Artifact)

Authors: Vincent St-Amour and Shu-yu Guo

Published in: DARTS, Volume 1, Issue 1, Special Issue of the 29th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2015)

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This artifact is based on our prototype optimization coach for the SpiderMonkey (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/SpiderMonkey) JavaScript engine. An optimization coach is a performance tool that aims to provide programmers with insight into how their compiler optimizes their programs and to help them better harness the optimization process. It does so by reporting optimization near misses, i.e., reports of optimizations that the compiler did not apply, but could apply if the program were to be modified slightly. This artifact provides the necessary environment, programs and data to repeat our experiments, and to allow readers to run our tool on JavaScript programs of their choice

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Vincent St-Amour and Shu-yu Guo. Optimization Coaching for JavaScript (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 29th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2015). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 5:1-5:2, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@Article{stamour_et_al:DARTS.1.1.5,
  author =	{St-Amour, Vincent and Guo, Shu-yu},
  title =	{{Optimization Coaching for JavaScript (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{5:1--5:2},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{1},
  number =	{1},
  editor =	{St-Amour, Vincent and Guo, Shu-yu},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.1.1.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-55146},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.1.1.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Optimization Coaching, JavaScript, Performance Tools}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2015.271

Optimization Coaching for JavaScript

Authors: Vincent St-Amour and Shu-yu Guo

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 37, 29th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2015)

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The performance of dynamic object-oriented programming languages such as JavaScript depends heavily on highly optimizing just-in-time compilers. Such compilers, like all compilers, can silently fall back to generating conservative, low-performance code during optimization. As a result, programmers may inadvertently cause performance issues on users' systems by making seemingly inoffensive changes to programs. This paper shows how to solve the problem of silent optimization failures. It specifically explains how to create a so-called optimization coach for an object-oriented just-in-time-compiled programming language. The development and evaluation build on the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine, but the results should generalize to a variety of similar platforms.

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Vincent St-Amour and Shu-yu Guo. Optimization Coaching for JavaScript. In 29th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 37, pp. 271-295, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@InProceedings{stamour_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2015.271,
  author =	{St-Amour, Vincent and Guo, Shu-yu},
  title =	{{Optimization Coaching for JavaScript}},
  booktitle =	{29th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2015)},
  pages =	{271--295},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-86-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{37},
  editor =	{Boyland, John Tang},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2015.271},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-52260},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2015.271},
  annote =	{Keywords: Optimization Coaching, JavaScript, Performance Tools}
}

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