4 papers
Hot Fixing in the Wild
Carol Hanna, Karine Even-Mendoza, W. B. Langdon +3
Despite the operational importance of hot fixes, large-scale evidence on how they reshape routine maintenance workflows, particularly in the era of autonomous coding agents, remain…
GreenMalloc: Allocator Optimisation for Industrial Workloads
Aidan Dakhama, W. B. Langdon, Hector D. Menendez +1
We present GreenMalloc, a multi objective search-based framework for automatically configuring memory allocators. Our approach uses NSGA II and rand_malloc as a lightweight proxy b…
GA4GC: Greener Agent for Greener Code via Multi-Objective Configuration Optimization
Jingzhi Gong, Yixin Bian, Luis de la Cal +8
Coding agents powered by LLMs face critical sustainability and scalability challenges in industrial deployment, with single runs consuming over 100k tokens and incurring environmen…
LLM-Guided Genetic Improvement: Envisioning Semantic Aware Automated Software Evolution
Karine Even-Mendoza, Alexander Brownlee, Alina Geiger +4
Genetic Improvement (GI) of software automatically creates alternative software versions that are improved according to certain properties of interests (e.g., running-time). Search…