[comp.benchmarks] Want benchmarks with edit history, for incremental analysis

paco@letaba.rice.edu (Paul Havlak) (12/11/90)

A number of programming environment researchers (including myself) are trying
to come up with incremental algorithms for reanalysis and recompilation of 
programs after edits.  Such techniques could greatly lessen the burden of the
edit-compile-run cycle that many programmers get stuck with.

But to validate such techniques on real programs, we need not only the programs
but an edit history describing the changes made after the first compilation and
between subsequent compilations.

My primary interest is in numerically-oriented Fortran codes.  Can
anyone direct
me to one or more such programs that have been maintained using a
source-control
system that keeps track of each intermediate version of the code?  If possible,
it would also help to have the edits required to go from one version to
the next,
although these can be reconstructed with some success.

Thanks,
Paul Havlak
Graduate student
Rice University