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5.2 Experiments

I intend to compare file systems in several categories:

For each category, I will run the following tests:

1.
Compare the performance of the file systems with similar or identical functionality.

2.
Compare the size of the FiST input to the generated C code.

3.
Compare the size of the FiST generated code to that of hand-written file systems (when sources for the latter are available).

4.
Compare the effort required to write a file system using FiST vs. hand writing one (pending the availability of such information.)

Additionally I intend to find out how many different operating systems I can generate a file system for, from the same FiST input.


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Erez Zadok
1999-12-07