Fast porting of projects

A system comprising:

• a memory having computer readable instructions;
• and
• one or more processors for executing the computer readable instructions, the computer readable instructions controlling the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a function of a source platform, the function comprising a plurality of fields;
• constructing a plurality of initial vectors, the plurality of initial vectors encoding a plurality of values for the plurality of fields according to encoding rules;
• merging the plurality of initial vectors into a single final vector;
• classifying the final vector into one of a plurality of system function families of the source platform;
• identifying a vector of a target platform at a minimum distance to the final vector;
• and
• generating an assessment comprising a difficulty in porting a project comprising the function between the source platform and the target platform based at least in part on the minimum distance.

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a function of a source platform, the function comprising a plurality of fields;
• constructing a plurality of initial vectors, the plurality of initial vectors encoding a plurality of values for the plurality of fields according to encoding rules;
• merging the plurality of initial vectors into a single final vector;
• classifying the final vector into one of a plurality of system function families of the source platform;
• identifying a vector of a target platform at a minimum distance to the final vector;
• and
• generating an assessment comprising a difficulty in porting a project comprising the function between the source platform and the target platform based at least in part on the minimum distance.