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PLDI
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Improving Performance by Branch Reordering
The conditional branch has long been considered an expensive operation. The relative cost of conditional branches has increased as recently designed machines are now relying on de...
Minghui Yang, Gang-Ryung Uh, David B. Whalley
PLDI
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Run-time Code Generation and Modal-ML
This paper presents a typed programming language and compiler for run-time code generation. The language, called ML2, extends ML with modal operators in the style of the Mini-ML2 ...
Philip Wickline, Peter Lee, Frank Pfenning
PLDI
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Quality and Speed in Linear-scan Register Allocation
A linear-scan algorithm directs the global allocation of register candidates to registers based on a simple linear sweep over the program being compiled. This approach to register...
Omri Traub, Glenn H. Holloway, Michael D. Smith
PLDI
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A Study of Dead Data Members in C++ Applications
Object-oriented applications may contain data members that can be removed from the application without a ecting program behavior. Such \dead" data members may occur due to un...
Peter F. Sweeney, Frank Tip
PLDI
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Exploiting Idle Floating-Point Resources for Integer Execution
In conventional superscalar microarchitectures with partitioned integer and floating-point resources, all floating-point resources are idle during execution of integer programs....
S. Subramanya Sastry, Subbarao Palacharla, James E...
PLDI
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Simplification of Array Access Patterns for Compiler Optimizations
Existing array region representation techniques are sensitive to the complexity of array subscripts. In general, these techniques are very accurate and efficient for simple subscr...
Yunheung Paek, Jay Hoeflinger, David A. Padua
PLDI
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The Implementation of the Cilk-5 Multithreaded Language
The fth release of the multithreaded language Cilk uses a provably good \work-stealing" scheduling algorithm similar to the rst system, but the language has been completely r...
Matteo Frigo, Charles E. Leiserson, Keith H. Randa...
PLDI
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Units: Cool Modules for HOT Languages
A module system ought to enable assembly-line programming using separate compilation and an expressive linking language. Separate compilation allows programmers to develop parts o...
Matthew Flatt, Matthias Felleisen