[Soot-list] basic question: how to use Dacapo to compare SPARK and Jchord's points-to analysis.

[Eric Bodden]

Hi Zell.

Those pages should answer your questions:
http://dacapobench.org/soot.html
http://code.google.com/p/tamiflex/wiki/DaCapoAndSoot

If you have additional questions, let us know.

Eric


On 3 July 2012 22:13, Z <zell08v at orange.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a naive question on the dacapo benchmarking methodology.  The goal is
> to compare the performance of Spark and Jchord's flow-insensitive points-to
> analyses. It's not evident for me to do the comparison with Dacapo.
>
> The site dacapobench.org says
>
> "
>
> To run one of the benchmarks, use the command followed by the benchmark
> name, for example avrora:
>
> java -jar dacapo-9.12-bach.jar avrora
>
> "
>
> But this command only measures the performance of my JRE since it outputs
> the used time for running 'avrora'. I would like to compare the precision
> and efficiency of Spark and Jchord's points-to analyses. Are there any
> approved way to do this kind of benchmarking? Intuitivlly, the programs in
> the benchmark suite Dacapo should be the input of my points-to analyseur
> (Spark or Jchord here), but I do not see the correct way to do this. I
> probably  misunderstand something here. Would you clarify a bit?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Zell.
>
>
>
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