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Register allocation (mapping variables to processor registers or memory) and instruction scheduling (reordering instructions to increase instruction-level parallelism) are essential tasks for generating efficient assembly code in a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Roberto Castañeda Lozano , Christian Schulte

Once a program file is modified, the recompilation time should be minimized, without sacrificing execution speed or high level object oriented features. The recompilation time is often a problem for the large graphical interactive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jerome Collin , Michel Dagenais

Just-in-time compilation provides significant performance improvements for programs written in dynamic languages. These benefits come from the ability of the compiler to speculate about likely cases and generate optimized code for these.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Olivier Flückiger , Jan Ječmen , Sebastián Krynski , Jan Vitek

A C decompiler converts an executable into source code. The recovered C source code, once re-compiled, is expected to produce an executable with the same functionality as the original executable. With over twenty years of development, C…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Wai Kin Wong , Huaijin Wang , Zongjie Li , Zhibo Liu , Shuai Wang , Qiyi Tang , Sen Nie , Shi Wu

There is a growing interest in enhancing compiler optimizations with ML models, yet interactions between compilers and ML frameworks remain challenging. Some optimizations require tightly coupled models and compiler internals,raising issues…

Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly Code LLMs, have demonstrated impressive performance in code generation. Current research primarily focuses on the correctness of generated code, while efficiency remains less explored. Recent works…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Tong Ye , Weigang Huang , Xuhong Zhang , Tengfei Ma , Peiyu Liu , Jianwei Yin , Wenhai Wang

Despite extensive testing and correctness certification of their functional semantics, a number of compiler optimizations have been shown to violate security guarantees implemented in source code. While prior work has shed light on how such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Michael D. Brown , Matthew Pruett , Robert Bigelow , Girish Mururu , Santosh Pande

Typical constraints on embedded systems include code size limits, upper bounds on energy consumption and hard or soft deadlines. To meet these requirements, it may be necessary to improve the software by applying various kinds of…

Performance · Computer Science 2010-11-30 Hugues Cassé , Karine Heydemann , Haluk Ozaktas , Jonathan Ponroy , Christine Rochange , Olivier Zendra

In this article we examine recent developments in the research area concerning the creation of end-to-end models for the complete optimization of measuring instruments. The models we consider rely on differentiable programming methods and…

Current compiler optimization reports often present complex, technical information that is difficult for programmers to interpret and act upon effectively. This paper assesses the capability of large language models (LLM) to understand…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Peter Pirkelbauer , Chunhua Liao

We present an open architecture for just-in-time code generation and dynamic code optimization that is flexible, customizable, and extensible. While previous research has primarily investigated functional aspects of such a system,…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Thomas Kistler , Michael Franz

Machine learning algorithms have been used widely in various applications and areas. To fit a machine learning model into different problems, its hyper-parameters must be tuned. Selecting the best hyper-parameter configuration for machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Li Yang , Abdallah Shami

We empirically evaluate the finite-time performance of several simulation-optimization algorithms on a testbed of problems with the goal of motivating further development of algorithms with strong finite-time performance. We investigate if…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Naijia Dong , David J. Eckman , Matthias Poloczek , Xueqi Zhao , Shane G. Henderson

Evaluating the effectiveness of software protection is crucial for selecting the most effective methods to safeguard assets within software applications. Obfuscation involves techniques that deliberately modify software to make it more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Leonardo Regano , Daniele Canavese , Cataldo Basile , Marco Torchiano

This research presents a method that utilizes explainability techniques to amplify the performance of machine learning (ML) models in forecasting the quality of milling processes, as demonstrated in this paper through a manufacturing use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Dennis Gross , Helge Spieker , Arnaud Gotlieb , Ricardo Knoblauch

A typical approach to programming is to first code the main execution scenario, and then focus on filling out alternative behaviors and corner cases. But, almost always, there exist unusual conditions that trigger atypical behaviors, which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Jessie Galasso , Michalis Famelis , Houari Sahraoui

A common aspect of today's cyber-physical systems is that multiple optimization-based control tasks may execute in a shared processor. Such control tasks make use of online optimization and thus have large execution times; hence, their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Bruno Sinopoli , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Sanjoy Baruah

Because loops execute their body many times, compiler developers place much emphasis on their optimization. Nevertheless, in view of highly diverse source code and hardware, compilers still struggle to produce optimal target code. The sheer…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Rahim Mammadli , Marija Selakovic , Felix Wolf , Michael Pradel

This dissertation introduces executable refinement types, which refine structural types by semi-decidable predicates, and establishes their metatheory and accompanying implementation techniques. These results are useful for undecidable type…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Kenneth Knowles

Computing according to laymens procedures is changed to contain a paradigm of inoptimality in the high level and assembled code. The code is changed to maximize the flow of information contained in the electrons so that they function more…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon Chalmers