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Is there a method for automatic runtime analysis of algorithms?

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Problem

I am wondering, is there a method for automatic runtime analysis that works at least on a relevant subset of algorithms (algorithms that can be analyzed)?

I googled "Automatic algorithm analysis" which gave me this but it is too mathy. I just want a simple example in psuedocode that I can understand. Might be too specific, but I thought it was worth a shot.

Solution

The COSTA tool does just this, although it fails in many cases, as you can imagine, due to computability problems.
There are many papers about this; Cost Analysis of Java Bytecode by E. Albert, P. Arenas, S. Genaim, G. Puebla, D. Zanardini is a good starting point.

The approach taken is to infer a run-time recurrence from the Javabyte code, the convert this to a closed form. The tool also compute space usage bounds.

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StackExchange Computer Science Q#33854, answer score: 13

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