Software Performance
People
Course director
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Description
This course teaches how the various layers of a computer system interact and affect the resulting performance. It performs two cuts down the system stack: one about the 'state' and the other about the 'behavior' of a system. The discussion of 'state' investigates memory usage of applications, leak detection, garbage collection, virtual memory management, and cache performance. The discussion of 'behavior' investigates call graphs, dynamic class loading, shared libraries and dynamic linking, control flow graphs, exception handling, compiler optimizations, and branch prediction.
Objectives
Learn to reason about performance across system layers. Understand, with the example of Java, how language, compiler, virtual machine, operating system, and computer architecture work together.
Teaching mode
In presence
Learning methods
Participation in class session and solution of lab/homework assignments (mostly programming in Java).
Examination information
Written in-class final exam (if possible).
Education
- Master of Science in Financial Technology and Computing, Lecture, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Informatics, Lecture, Software Development, Elective, 1st year
- Master of Science in Informatics, Lecture, Software Development, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Informatics, Lecture, Programming languages, Elective, 1st year
- Master of Science in Informatics, Lecture, Programming languages, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Software & Data Engineering, Lecture, 2nd year
