Acknowledgements
First, I would like to thank my supervisors, Allan Borodin and Angela Demke Brown,for helping me get past playing around the code and get to write my ideas in the formof this thesis.I wish to thank Søren Sandmann and Lorenzo Colitti for useful discussion, and sharingtheir measurements and tools with me.I also want to thank Bert Hubert for readily sharing his work with me prior topublication, and Rik van Riel for answering all my technical questions promptly.I would like to thank all my colleagues in the Systems Software Reading Group forintroducing me to recent research in the systems software area, for thought provokingdiscussions, and for providing useful feedback during the early days of my work.During the course of this project, I solicited advice from many, many colleagues hereat the University of Toronto, all of whom have helped me very generously. In particularI would like to thank Shiva Nejati, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Reza Azimi, and Faye Baron.Finally, I would like to thank Google and the Fedora Project, for partially supportingmy work through the Summer of Code program.iii
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