Changeset 3438

Timestamp:

Feb 14, 2014, 8:10:49 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

campbell

Message:

Appendix about the reviewer's comments.

Location:

Papers/fopara2013

Files:

• appendix.tex (modified) (1 diff)
• fopara13.tex (modified) (1 diff)

Papers/fopara2013/appendix.tex

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+\section{Changes in response to the reviewer's comments}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item
+We have made more explicit reference to a key WCET survey paper, in
+particular noting that it is a useful source of information about
+commercial tools such as AbsInt.
+
+\item We have altered and improved the example to remove some
+distracting ambiguity and demonstrate a parametric time bound.  The
+text now identifies the added code by more than just its colour.  The
+later sections now refer back to the example to illustrate the effects
+of each technique.
+
+\item
 We've removed the paragraph on logic programming languages because one
 of the reviewers pointed out that standard Prolog may have the
 necessary features, which we haven't tried.  Thus we felt it was best
-not to claim anything about logic programming.
+not to claim anything about logic programming at this time.
 
-The example has been slightly altered to show a parametric time bound.
-The text now identifies the added code by more than just its colour.
+\item
+We have been more explicit about the type of code generated by the
+Lustre compiler, and what kinds of loop can be handled automatically
+by the Cost plugin and where loop iteration bounds come from.
 
-Section 2 has been restructured to give a clearer comparison of
-existing approaches with CerCo.
+\item The structure of the document has been greatly improved.
+Section 2 has been restructured and broken up into subsections to give
+a clearer comparison of existing approaches with CerCo.
+Section 4 has been reorganised to highlight the connections between
+the different parts of the work and a short overview provided to help
+the reader understand the significance of each part of the work.
 
-Section 4 has been reorganised to highlight the connections between
-the different parts of the work.
+\item A clearer distinction is made between the core contribution of
+the compiler --- which provides local cost information in the source
+code and thus is largely agnostic to how loops are structured and what
+kind of data structures are used --- and the cost synthesis work which
+provides higher-level costs using it.
 
-The citation of a survey of state-of-the-art WCET tools has been made
-more explicit as a source of information about tools such as AbsInt.
+\item The text has been extensively revised to be easier to read, and
+to make minor corrections, including those identified by the reviewers.
+
+\end{itemize}

Papers/fopara2013/fopara13.tex

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 %\bibliography{fopara13.bib}
 
+\appendix
+
+\include{appendix}
+
 \end{document}