Re: [abc] POPL submission / Soot and abc release

Thanks, Eric.

I have to say once again I find it really irritating that you write
things like "we describe tracematches, *our* mechanism for runtime
monitoring". The design of tracematches is not due to any of the authors
of this paper. Of course we're very grateful for Laurie's input on
improving the original OOPSLA paper presentation, but you ought to point
out that it is primarily work of Pavel and Julian (and Chris Allan as
well!). Instead you dismiss their contribution in three sentences in
the introduction. That is deeply misleading.

I'll refrain from pointing out further instances of this misappropriation
of scientific results that are not yours, but the paper is littered with
it. It's really not good scientific practice to try and take credit for
stuff you did not do, and I am sorry to have to ask once again that you stop
doing that.

As you know, there continues to be a tense feeling about the
fact that while we started the tm research here at Oxford, part of that
juicy story was hijacked by the Sable group, so you should try to exercise
a little sensitivity on this subject.

Sorry to be blunt, but apparently more subtle ways of saying the same
thing in the past haven't gotten through.

Best wishes,

-Oege

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Eric Bodden wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> As mentioned earlier, Patrick, Laurie and I wrote a POPL submission on
> flow-sensitive optimizations for tracematches. This basically replaces
> "stage 3" of the ECOOP paper with something that actually works. We
> got pretty good speedups and found out other interesting stuff so it
> might be worth a look.
>
> You can download it here:
> http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~ebodde/pubs/blh07flowsensitive-draft.pdf
>
> A TR version will follow shortly.
>
> Further, I would like to prepare a joint Soot and abc release very
> soon. The Soot release because of this bug we fixed with the points-to
> analysis and the abc release so that at least the ECOOP analysis is
> out there when I give the talk. (All stuff relevant to running the
> ECOOP analysis is already in the abc HEAD. The POPL analysis I
> currently keep in our SVN at McGill.)
>
> However, the analysis for POPL was still impeded in some cases by an
> apparent bug in Manu's context-sensitive points-to analysis. (It fails
> to produce context information in some even smaller test cases.) I
> will see if Manu and I can get this fixed by next week or so, so that
> then we can hopefully do a release.
>
> Eric
>
> --
> Eric Bodden
> Sable Research Group
> McGill University, Montréal, Canada
>
>
Received on Wed Jul 18 2007 - 11:12:06 BST