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2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
The polyhedral model is known to be a powerful framework to reason about high level loop transformations. Recent developments in optimizing compilers broke some generally accepted ...
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2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
This paper presents a new worklist algorithm that significantly speeds up a large class of flow-sensitive data-flow analyses, including typestate error checking and pointer analysi...
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2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
Interprocedural dataflow analysis has a large number of uses for software optimization, maintenance, testing, and verification. For software built with reusable components, the tra...
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2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
Commonly-used memory units enable a processor to load and store multiple registers in one instruction. We showed in 2003 how to extend gcc with a stack-location-allocation (SLA) ph...
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2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
We present the results of an empirical study evaluating the precision of subset-based points-to analysis with several variations of context sensitivity on Java benchmarks of signif...
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2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. Loop optimizations such as loop unrolling, unfolding and invariant code motion have long been used in a wide variety of compilers to improve the running time of applicati...
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2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
As register allocation is one of the most important phases in optimizing compilers, much work has been done to improve its quality and speed. We present a novel register allocation...
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2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
We introduce a new class of compiler heuristics: hybrid optimizations. Hybrid optimizations choose dynamically at compile time which optimization algorithm to apply from a set of d...
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2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. Alias analysis, traditionally performed statically, is unsuited for a dynamic binary translator (DBT) due to incomplete control-flow information and the high complexity o...
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2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
Software fault localization involves locating the exact cause of error for a "failing" execution run