- Author
- Year
- 2010
- host editors
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A. Krall
G. Barany - Title
- An adaptive compilation framework for generic data-parallel array programming
- Event
- Compilers for Parallel Computing, 15th Workshop (CPC 2010), Vienna, Austria
- Book/source title
- Compilers for Parallel Computing, 15th Workshop (CPC 2010)
- Publisher
- Vienna, Austria: Institute of Computer Languages, Vienna University of Technology
- Document type
- Conference contribution
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science (FNWI)
- Institute
- Informatics Institute (IVI)
- Abstract
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Generic array programming abstracts from structural properties of arrays, such as rank (number of axes/dimensions) and shape (number of element along each axis/dimension). This allows for abstract program specifications and, as such, is desirable from a software engineering perspective. However, generic programming in this sense does have an adverse effect on runtime performance, at least when executed naively. Static compiler analyses and transformations aim at reconciling software engineering desires for generic code with runtime performance requirements. However, they are bound to fail whenever the required information is not available until runtime.
We propose a compilation framework that overcomes the inherent limitations of static analysis by incrementally adapting a running program to the structural properties of the arrays it operates on. This is achieved by partial recompilation of code at runtime, when all structural properties of arrays are known, and dynamic relinking of the running program with dynamically generated code. We sketch out the general compilation framework architecture and provide some details on implementation issues. - Link
- Link
- Language
- English
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.333851
- Downloads
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GrelDeurHerh_CPC10.pdf(Accepted author manuscript)
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