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Abstract

A profile feedback optimization system is provided. The system accepts as input an original application and produces an optimized version of the application. The system first instruments the original application through an instrumentation process such that when it executes, it generates profile data. During instrumentation, the system configures images in the application to trap any function calls to critical functions. This allows the instrumented version of the application to execute transparently and appear as the original version. The instrumentation process converts each original image of the application to a version that references other instrumented images. The instrumentation process also configures the operating system to execute the instrumented version instead of the original version when the user selects the application for execution. Once instrumented, the instrumented application is executed. During execution, profile data produced from the instrumented images is saved in a database. Once profile data has been generated, an optimization process is used to optimize the original version of the application based upon the profile data. The optimized version is also configured to execute just as the original application, but references optimized images instead of original images.

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