A New Metric for Automatic Program Partitioning

Abstract

Software reverse engineering techniques are most often applied to reconstruct the architecture of a program with respect to quality constraints, or non-functional requirements such as maintainability or reusability. However, there has been no effort to assess the architecture of a program from the performance viewpoint and reconstruct this architecture in order to improve the program performance. In this paper, a novel Actor-Oriented Program reverse engineering approach, is proposed to reconstruct an object-oriented program architecture based on a high performance model such as actor model. Since actors can communicate with each other asynchronously, reconstructing the program architecture based on this model may result in the concurrent execution of the program invocations and consequently increasing the overall performance of the program when enough processors are available.