Journal of the ACM (JACM)
A Software Science Model of Compile Time
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Determining average program execution times and their variance
PLDI '89 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1989 Conference on Programming language design and implementation
The importance of percent-done progress indicators for computer-human interfaces
CHI '85 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Communications of the ACM
Database Management Systems
Access path selection in a relational database management system
SIGMOD '79 Proceedings of the 1979 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Estimating compilation time of a query optimizer
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Toward a progress indicator for database queries
SIGMOD '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Estimating progress of execution for SQL queries
SIGMOD '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Multi-query SQL progress indicators
EDBT'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Advances in Database Technology
The design of a query monitoring system
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
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For user-friendliness purposes, many modern software systems provide progress indicators for long-running tasks. These progress indicators continuously estimate the percentage of the task that has been completed and when the task will finish. However, none of the existing program compilation tools provide a non-trivial progress indicator, although it often takes minutes or hours to build a large program. In this paper, we investigate the problem of supporting such progress indicators. We first discuss the goals and challenges inherent in this problem. Then we present a set of techniques that are sufficient for implementing a simple yet useful progress indicator for program compilation. Finally, we report on an initial implementation of these techniques in GNU Make. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.