Section: New Software and Platforms

PADRONE

Keywords: Legacy code - Optimization - Performance analysis - Dynamic Optimization

Functional Description: 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 especially 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.

• Participants: Emmanuel Riou and Erven Rohou

• Contact: Erven Rohou

• URL: https://team.inria.fr/pacap/software/padrone