Performance Analysis Using Subsuming Methods: An Industrial Case Study

David Maplesden, Karl Von Randow, Ewan Tempero, John Hosking, John Grundy

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Abstract

Large-scale object-oriented applications consist of tens of thousands of methods and exhibit highly complex runtime behaviour that is difficult to analyse for performance. Typical performance analysis approaches that aggregate performance measures in a method-centric manner result in thinly distributed costs and few easily identifiable optimisation opportunities. Subsuming methods analysis is a new approach that aggregates performance costs across repeated patterns of method calls that occur in the application's runtime behaviour. This allows automatic identification of patterns that are expensive and represent practical optimisation opportunities. To evaluate the practicality of this analysis with a real world large-scale object-oriented application we completed a case study with the developers of letterboxd.com - a social network website for movie goers. Using the results of the analysis we were able to rapidly implement changes resulting in a 54.8% reduction in CPU load and an 49.6% reduction in average response time.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2015
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages149-158
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781479919345
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Aug 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2015 - Florence, Italy
Duration: 16 May 201524 May 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
Volume2
ISSN (Print)0270-5257

Conference

Conference37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2015
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period16/05/1524/05/15

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