Section: New Software and Platforms

Padrone

Participants : Erven Rohou, Emmanuel Riou.

Performance, profiling, dynamic optimization

Status: Ongoing development, early prototype. Registered with APP (Agence de Protection des Programmes).

Padrone is new platform for dynamic binary analysis and optimization. It provides an API to help clients design and develop analysis and optimization tools for binary executables. Padrone attaches to running applications, only needing the executable binary in memory. No source code or debug information is needed. No application restart is needed either. This is specially interesting for legacy or commercial applications, but also in the context of cloud deployment, where actual hardware is unknown, and other applications competing for hardware resources can vary. The profiling overhead is minimum.

Padrone is instrumental to the PhD developments of Nabil Hallou.

Padrone is written in C.

For more information, please contact Erven Rohou.