Minimum information needed for writing a code generator
If a compiler writer is faced with writing a back-end for an undocumented processor, what is the minimum amount of information that needs to be reverse engineered? It is possible to implement a...
View ArticleUsing evolution to reduce competition
The Microsoft purchase of Skype got me thinking back to my time as an advisor to the Monitoring Trustee appointed by the European Commission in the EU/Microsoft competition court case. The Commission...
View ArticleWays of obtaining empirical data in software engineering
For as long as I can remember I have been a collector of empirical data. Writing a book that involves analysis of empirical lots of data has added some focus to my previous scatter gun approach. I have...
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Extracting the original data from a heatmap image
The paper Analysis of the Linux Kernel Evolution Using Code Clone Coverage analysed 136 versions of Linux (from 1.0 to 2.6.18.3) and calculated the amount of source code that was shared, going forward,...
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Converting lines in an svg image to csv
During a search for data on programming language usage I discovered Stack Overflow Trends, showing an interesting plot of language tags appearing on Stack Overflow questions (see below). Where was the...
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