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ACDC for JavaScript (ACDC-JS)
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Usage: 

$ [your_vm] acdc.js

runs the default settings of ACDC-JS.

ACDC-JS can be configured through the following CLI parameters (default values are shown):

timeQuantum: 1048576
benchmarkDuration: 100
minLiveness: 1
maxLiveness: 10
minSize: 8
maxSize: 64
minRootDistance: 1
maxRootDistance: 20
minOutDegree: 0
maxOutDegree: 5
minCycleSize: 1
maxCycleSize: 20
deallocationDelay: 0
accessMemory: true
readOnlyAccess: false
listHeapRatio: -1
logLevel: 4
timer: 3
cpuClock: 2000000


Input description
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Example:
$ [your_vm] acdc.js -- cpuClock 3000000 maxSize 128 maxLiveness 20

Parameters in detail:

timeQuantum: represents the number of bytes ACDC-JS allocates until it advances in time
benchmarkDuration: number of timeQuanta that advance before termination
minLiveness: min. object liveness. Given in timeQuanta
maxLiveness: max. object liveness. Given in timeQuanta
minSize: min. object size in bytes (approximately)
maxSize: max. object size in bytes (approximately)
minRootDistance: min. distance from allocated objects to roots
maxRootDistance: max. distance from allocated objects to roots
minOutDegree: min. number of outgoing references
maxOutDegree: max. number of outgoing references
minCycleSize: min. size of cycles in allocated objects
maxCycleSize: max. size of cycles in allocated objects
deallocationDelay: delays the deallocation of expired objects by a number of timeQuanta
accessMemory: [0|1] if 1, live objects are accessed after each timeQuantum
readOnlyAccess: [0|1] if 0, live objects are also modified upon access
listHeapRatio: -1 or a percentage between 0 and 100. Controls the amount of list-based
lifetime-size-classes over the amount of heap-based lifetime-size-classes
logLevel: between 1 and 4.
timer: controls time measurement method. Depends on VM.
        1=performance.now(), 
        2=PerfMeasurement(PerfMeasurement.CPU_CYCLES), requires setting cpuClock option
        3=Date.now(), less accurate, but portable
cpuClock: given in kHz. Required if timer==2


Output description
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Example Output:

> total runtime 5700
> allocation avg 36.870 stddev 23.015 relative 62.421%
> access avg 19.810 stddev 3.626 relative 18.302%

total runtime (in ms): the whole ACDC-JS execution time.

allocation (in ms): time spent allocating. Reports arithmetic mean (avg), 
sample standard deviation (stddev), and coefficient of variation (relative)
i.e., stddev/avg

access (in ms): same as allocation, but reports time spent in accessing live objects