Since benchmarks drive computer science research and industry product development,
which ones we use and how we evaluate them are key questions for the community. Despite …

The JavaScript programming language is widely used for web programming and,
increasingly, for general purpose computing. As such, improving the correctness, security …

Modern Java programs, such as middleware and application servers, include many complex
software components. Improving the performance of these Java applications requires a …

Several important aspects of software product quality can be evaluated using dynamic
metrics that effectively capture and reflect the software's true runtime behavior. While the …

JavaScript is widely used in web-based applications and is increasingly popular with
developers. So-called browser wars in recent years have focused on JavaScript …

We present Paddle, a framework of BDD-based context-sensitive points-to and call graph
analyses for Java, as well as client analyses that use their results. Paddle supports several …

Originally conceived as the target platform for Java alone, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
has since been targeted by other languages, one of which is Scala. This trend, however, is …

Object-oriented programming languages provide a rich set of features that provide
significant software engineering benefits. The increased productivity provided by these …

Comparing the performance of programming languages is difficult because they differ in
many aspects including preferred programming abstractions, available frameworks, and …

Applications often have large runtime memory requirements. In some cases, large memory
footprint helps accomplish an important functional, performance, or engineering …