The Sable Research Lab is located in the McConnell Engineering Building, which is really old and ugly. At the lab we are used to disruptions. We have flaky fire alerts leading to evacuations on at least a monthly basis. Power outages occur even more frequently – not funny if you had just had your most important experiments set up to run on a dozen machines overnight. Unfortunately, instead of tearing the building down and building a new one, McGill has kept on trying to fix it – for ages. The year’s sweet deal is the re-building of an underground tunnel that connects the building with the James Administration building. It began a couple of weeks ago, when people began really upset because McGill destroyed a huge park of the on-campus park and tore down a bunch of really old trees. Nothing major though compared what happened today.
Workers bust McGill’s water main (updated)
Eric | July 7, 2008Soot 2.2.5 is here!
Eric | March 18, 2008
Today we released version 2.2.5 of Soot, our program analysis and transformation framework for Java. Release 2.2.5 contains some exciting new features, for example:
- Manu Sridharan’s demand-driven refinement-based context-sensitive points-to analysis, based on Spark
- a new Thread-local objects analysis, which Halpert et al. used for automatic lock allocation
- an improved version of our nullness analysis, due to Julian Tibble, and
- Instance Keys, static representatives of runtime objects.
Furthermore there have been several improvements to the Soot Eclipse plugin to enhance its ease of use.
