(Texas A&M University) We’ve all shared the frustration — software updates that are intended to make our applications run faster inadvertently end up doing just the opposite. These bugs, dubbed in the computer science field as performance regressions, are time-consuming to fix since locating software errors normally requires substantial human intervention.

Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/tau-sus021120.php