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The unprecedented growth of data volumes has caused traditional approaches to computing to be re-evaluated. This has started a transition towards the use of very large-scale clusters of commodity hardware and has given rise to the…

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We address the problem of automatic decompilation, converting a program in low-level representation back to a higher-level human-readable programming language. The problem of decompilation is extremely important for security researchers.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Omer Katz , Yuval Olshaker , Yoav Goldberg , Eran Yahav

In the Hydro project we are designing a compiler toolkit that can optimize for the concerns of distributed systems, including scale-up and scale-down, availability, and consistency of outcomes across replicas. This invited paper overviews…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Joseph M. Hellerstein , Shadaj Laddad , Mae Milano , Conor Power , Mingwei Samuel

Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) uses runtime profiling to direct compiler optimization decisions, effectively combining static analysis with actual execution behavior to enhance performance. Runtime profiles, collected through…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Bingxin Liu , Yinghui Huang , Jianhua Gao , Jianjun Shi , Yongpeng Liu , Yipin Sun , Weixing Ji

Compiler optimization is crucial for enhancing program performance by transforming the sequence of optimization passes while maintaining correctness. Despite the promising potential of large language models (LLMs)-based agent for software…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Hongyu Lin , Haolin Pan , Haoran Luo , Yuchen Li , Kaichun Yao , Libo Zhang , Mingjie Xing , Yanjun Wu

The Deep Learning (DL) community sees many novel topologies published each year. Achieving high performance on each new topology remains challenging, as each requires some level of manual effort. This issue is compounded by the…

Compiler optimization techniques are inherently complex, and rigorous testing of compiler optimization implementation is critical. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of testing approaches for uncovering incorrect optimization bugs,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jingwen Wu , Jiajing Zheng , Zhenyu Yang , Zhongxing Yu

GCC and LLVM underpin much of modern software infrastructure, relying on distinct Intermediate Representations (IRs) to drive optimizations and code generation. However, the semantic and structural differences between these IRs create…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Andrea Valenzuela Ramirez , Cristian Gutierrez-Gomez , Marta Barroso , Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Sara Royuela

Making a Prolog program more efficient by transforming its source code, without changing its operational semantics, is not an obvious task. It requires the user to have a clear understanding of how the Prolog compiler works, and in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-11-01 Francois Gobert , Baudouin Le Charlier

In this paper, we propose a new concept called \textit{semantically equivalence} \wrt \textit{optimization phases} \textit{(\sep)}, which defines the set of programs a compiler considers semantically equivalent to the input using a set of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yu Wang , Hongyu Chen , Ke Wang

This work deals with the optimization of computer programs targeting Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The goal is to lift, from programmers to optimizing compilers, the heavy burden of determining program details that are dependent on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Xiaohui Chen , Marc Moreno-Maza , Jeeva Paudel , Ning Xie

Fast machine code generation is especially important for fast start-up just-in-time compilation, where the compilation time is part of the end-to-end latency. However, widely used compiler frameworks like LLVM do not prioritize fast…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Tobias Schwarz , Tobias Kamm , Alexis Engelke

Our objective is to formally verify the correctness of the hundreds of expression optimization rules used within the GraalVM compiler. When defining the semantics of a programming language, expressions naturally form abstract syntax trees,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Brae J. Webb , Ian J. Hayes , Mark Utting

The complexity of heterogeneous computing architectures, as well as the demand for productive and portable parallel application development, have driven the evolution of parallel programming models to become more comprehensive and complex…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Anjia Wang , Xinyao Yi , Yonghong Yan

In this paper, we focus on the need for two approaches to optimize producer and consumer synchronization for auto-parallelizing compiler. Emphasis is placed on the construction of a criterion model by which the compiler reduce the number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-04 Gang Liao , Zhi-hui Qin , Long-fei Ma , Qi Sun

When implementing secure software, developers must ensure certain requirements, such as the erasure of secret data after its use and execution in real time. Such requirements are not explicitly captured by the C language and could…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-08 A. P. Shivarpatna Venkatesh , A. Bhat Handadi , M. Mory

The paper introduces the development of a modular compiler for a subset of a C-like language, which addresses the challenges in constructing a compiler for high-level languages. This modular approach will allow developers to modify a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Debasish Dutta , Neeharika Sonowal , Irani Hazarika

Computer architectures become more and more complex. It requires more effort to develop techniques that improve the programs of performance and allow to exploit material resources efficiently. As a result, many transformations are applied…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Asma Balamane , Zina Taklit

This paper delves into the intricacies of code summarization using advanced transformer-based language models. Through empirical studies, we evaluate the efficacy of code summarization by altering function and variable names to explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Debanjan Mondal , Abhilasha Lodha , Ankita Sahoo , Beena Kumari

Verification proofs encode complete program behavior, yet we discard them after checking correctness. We present compiling by proving, a paradigm that transforms these proofs into optimized execution rules. By constructing All-Path…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jianhong Zhao , Everett Hildenbrandt , Juan Conejero , Yongwang Zhao