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From: jon@cs.washington.edu (Jon Jacky)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: Searching for determinism/predictability
Summary: Paper, tech report recommended
Message-ID: <10919@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 90 18:16:36 GMT
References: <8248@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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> koopman@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Philip Koopman) asks...
>
> I am searching for references to previous work done on
> determinism and predictability over small time intervals
> (i.e. microseconds). ... I have found the following:
> 
> - a 1986 article by Razouk et al. on measuring '286 performance
> - a 1987 Software Engineering Institute report on Ada performance
> - several articles by coworkers at Harris
>
> Any pointers to further high-quality articles are appreciated.

Try:

@article{softeng:shaw89,
        author="Alan Shaw",
        title="Reasoning About Time in Higher-Level Language Software",
        journal="IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering",
        volume=15,
        number=7,
        month="July",
        year=1989,
        pages="875 -- 889"}
      
At a colloquium here at the University of Washington last November, Shaw
described an experimental tool his group had produced that 
predicts the running time of languages written in a C subset (the target was
a 68010).  That project is written up in a techical report,

@techreport{softeng:park89,
	author="Chang-Yun Park and Alan Shaw",
	title="A source-level tool for prediciting deterministic execution
		times of programs",
	institution="Department of Computer Science, University of 
		Washington",
	year=1989,
	month="Sept.",
	number="TR#89-09-12",
	address="Mail Stop FR-35, University of Washington, Seattle, WA,
			98195"}

- Jon Jacky, University of Washington, jon@gaffer.rad.washington.edu