Sharpening Your Tools
Author(s)
Garfinkel, Simson
Stewart, Jon
Date Issued
July 25, 2023
Publisher
ACM|Communications of the ACM
Citation
Garfinkel, Simson and Stewart, Jon. 2023. "Sharpening Your Tools."
Version
Final published version
Abstract
Bulk_extractor is a high-performance digital forensics tool written in C++. Between 2018 and 2022 we updated the program from C++98 to C++17, performed a complete code refactoring, and adopted a unit test framework. The new version typically runs with 75% more throughput than the previous version, which we attribute to improved multithreading. We provide lessons and recommendations for other digital forensics tool maintainers.
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1145/3600098
