Quantifying behavioral differences between C and C++ programs

Quantifying behavioral differences between C and C++ programs (1994)

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by Brad Calder , Dirk Grunwald , Benjamin Zorn

Venue:	JOURNAL OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
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TITLE	Quantifying behavioral differences between C and C++ programs	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Brad Calder	user correction
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado	user correction
AUTHOR ADDR	Campus Box 430, Boulder, Colorado 80309–0430 USA	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	Dirk Grunwald	user correction
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado	user correction
AUTHOR ADDR	Campus Box 430, Boulder, Colorado 80309–0430 USA	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	Benjamin Zorn	user correction
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado	user correction
AUTHOR ADDR	Campus Box 430, Boulder, Colorado 80309–0430 USA	user correction
ABSTRACT	Improving the performance of C programs has been a topic of great interest for many years. Both hardware technology and compiler optimization research has been applied in an effort to make C programs execute faster. In many application domains, the C++ language is replacing C as the programming language of choice. In this paper, we measure the empirical behavior of a group of significant C and C++ programs and attempt to identify and quantify behavioral differences between them. Our goal is to determine whether optimization technology that has been successful for C programs will also be successful in C++ programs. We furthermore identify behavioral characteristics of C++ programs that suggest optimizations that should be applied in those programs. Our results show that C++ programs exhibit behavior that is significantly different than C programs. These results should be of interest to compiler writers and architecture designers who are designing systems to execute object-oriented programs.	user correction
YEAR	1994	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
VENUE	JOURNAL OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES	user correction
VENUE TYPE	JOURNAL	INFERENCE
PAGES	313--351	INFERENCE
VOLUME	2	INFERENCE
TECH	Technical Report CU-CS-698-94	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	55 found	ParsCit 1.0