Title :
Parallel support for source code analysis and modification
Abstract :
Tools that analyze and enhance large-scale software systems using symbolic reasoning are computationally expensive, and yet processors are cheap. We believe that enabling tools with parallel foundations will lead to qualitatively more useful tools. We have implemented a large-scale industrial-strength program transformation system, the DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit, entirely in PARLANSE, a new parallel language. PARLANSE provides support for irregular fine-grain parallelism with zero-cost exception handling. This paper sketches the motivation for PARLANSE, its parallelism support and how it is used in a number of DMS-based applications, including parallel rewriting and attribute evaluation.
Keywords :
exception handling; parallel languages; parallel programming; software tools; symbol manipulation; system monitoring; systems re-engineering; DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit; PARLANSE; attribute evaluation; irregular fine-grain parallelism; large-scale program transformation system; large-scale software systems; parallel language; parallel rewriting; parallel support; source code analysis; source code modification; symbolic reasoning; zero-cost exception handling; Application software; Computer industry; Concurrent computing; Large-scale systems; Packaging; Parallel processing; Software engineering; Software systems; Software tools; Yarn;
Conference_Titel :
Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, 2002. Proceedings. Second IEEE International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1793-5
DOI :
10.1109/SCAM.2002.1134100
