2 more days…

The days are long and the nights longer. The NSDI deadline is monday and I just can’t wait for it to get over. The frustrating part is that I’m neither writing new code nor testing my own. Instead I’ve spent most of the last week just trying to get some other system to perform “normally” so that I have a good baseline. Only //then// do I get to the part where I can actually run my own code.

I really don’t like this part of research work. Debugging is fine. Performance evaluation is good, so long as I know what I’m evaluating. But running someone else’s code and trying to figure out where the bottlenecks are can get a bit frustrating. To be fair, I’m getting all the help I can from the guys who wrote this other piece of code, but I just don’t like this feeling.

Anyways, 2 more days to go and then I’ll be taking it easy for almost 2 weeks.

…. must…. keep…..trying….