CIFASIS/QuickFuzz

Support direct-to-FFI

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#46 opened on Sep 19, 2016

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Description

Spawning an external process adds overhead in fuzzing. In the case where we are passing the value generated from the grammar to a library without fuzzing, it'd be interesting to see if there are performance gains invoking the library directly via Haskell's FFI instead of spawning an external process.

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Research direction
Investigate the performance overhead of spawning external processes vs. direct FFI calls in Haskell. Implement a prototype to benchmark and compare the two approaches.
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haskell
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testing
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3
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1-2 days
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Clear
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Haskell
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40