Reducing build time through precompilations for evolving large software Export

@proceedings{citeulike:890970, abstract = {Large-scale legacy programs take long time to compile, thereby hampering productivity. This paper presents algorithms that reduce compilation time by analyzing syntactic dependencies in fine-grain program units, and by removing redundancies as well as false dependencies. These algorithms are combined with parallel compilation techniques (compiler farms, compiler caches), to further reduce build time. We demonstrate through experiments their effectiveness in achieving significant speedup for both fresh and incremental builds.}, author = {Yu, Y. and Dayani-Fard, H. and Mylopoulos, J. and Andritsos, P.}, citeulike-article-id = {890970}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1510103}, journal = {Software Maintenance, 2005. ICSM'05. Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on}, pages = {59--68}, posted-at = {2006-10-10 05:40:58}, priority = {3}, title = {Reducing build time through precompilations for evolving large software}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1510103}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:890970 L3 - citeulike-article-id:890970 N2 - Large-scale legacy programs take long time to compile, thereby hampering productivity. This paper presents algorithms that reduce compilation time by analyzing syntactic dependencies in fine-grain program units, and by removing redundancies as well as false dependencies. These algorithms are combined with parallel compilation techniques (compiler farms, compiler caches), to further reduce build time. We demonstrate through experiments their effectiveness in achieving significant speedup for both fresh and incremental builds. JF - Software Maintenance, 2005. ICSM'05. Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on EP - 68 TI - Reducing build time through precompilations for evolving large software SP - 59 AU - Yu, Y AU - Dayani-Fard, H AU - Mylopoulos, J AU - Andritsos, P PY - 2005/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1510103 ER -