Vincent St-Amour

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1 Research [Scribble bibliography]

• Dissertation: How to Generate Actionable Advice about Performance Problems

  • Defense slides available here.

• Optimization Coaching for JavaScript

  • To be presented at ECOOP 2015.

  • Accepted artifact available here (description).

• Profile-Guided Meta-Programming

  • To be presented at PLDI 2015.

• Feature-Specific Profiling

  • Presented at CC 2015. Slides available here.

• Experience Report: Applying Random Testing to a Base Type Environment

  • Presented at ICFP 2013. Slides available here.

• Optimization Coaching

  • Presented at OOPSLA 2012. Slides available here.

• Seeing the Futures: Profiling Shared-Memory Parallel Racket

  • Presented at FHPC 2012.

• Typing the Numeric Tower

  • Presented at PADL 2012. Slides available here.

• Languages as Libraries

  • Presented at PLDI 2011.

• Where are you going with those types?

  • Presented at IFL 2010. Slides available here.

• PICOBIT: A Compact Scheme System for Microcontrollers

  • Presented at IFL 2009. Slides available here.

• S3 (Small Scheme Stack): A Scheme TCP/IP Stack Targeting Small Embedded Applications.

  • Presented at the 2008 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming. Slides available here.

2 Teaching

I’m not teaching at the moment.

In the past, I’ve taught How to Design Programs with Jesse Tov and Olin Shivers. I’ve also taught Object-Oriented Design with Will Clinger and Compilers with Olin Shivers.

3 Lab

If you’re in the Boston area and are interested in programming languages, check out the PL and PL Jr. seminars.

4 Code

Most of my code is either on Github, in the Racket codebase or on the Racket package catalog.

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