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Rudimentary v Powerful Analysis #116

Closed jssmith1 closed 8 years ago

jssmith1 commented 8 years ago

I also didn't understand how the presented techniques required "powerful program analysis techniques" when it only needed to find out the direct callers and callees - isn't that available from a rudimentary program analysis?

jssmith1 commented 8 years ago

From Rebuttal:

(2): We agree with R3 that “Powerful” is a relative term and a superfluous modifier for the “Powerful Program Analysis” design principle. We used powerful program analysis to describe breaking down the code into individual AST Nodes, rather than using syntax or text-based search and analysis (as is done in Eclipse’s Mark Occurrences). Including “Powerful” distracts from the underlying design principle. We will rename the principle to simply “Program Analysis” throughout the paper.