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Compiler writers typically focus primarily on the performance of the generated program binaries when selecting the passes and the order in which they are applied in the standard optimization levels, such as GCC -O3. In some domains, such as…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Ricardo Nobre , Luís Reis , João M. P. Cardoso

We present a systematic, algebraically based, design methodology for efficient implementation of computer programs optimized over multiple levels of the processor/memory and network hierarchy. Using a common formalism to describe the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2008-03-18 Lenore R. Mullin , James E. Raynolds

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

Traditionally, parsing has been a laborious and error-prone component of compiler development, and most parsers for full industrial programming languages are still written by hand. The author [Zim22] shows that automatic parser generation…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Joe Zimmerman

As quantum computers continue to improve and support larger, more complex computations, smart control hardware and compilers are needed to efficiently leverage the capabilities of these systems. This paper introduces a novel approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Folkert de Ronde , Alexander Knapen , Stephan Wong , Sebastian Feld

Code optimization remains a core objective in software development, yet modern compilers struggle to navigate the enormous optimization spaces. While recent research has looked into employing large language models (LLMs) to optimize source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hanyun Jiang , Peisen Yao , Kaiyue Li , Tingting Lin , Chengpeng Wang , Kui Ren

Code completion has become a common practice for programmers during their daily programming activities. It aims at automatically predicting the next tokens or lines that the programmers tend to use. A good code completion tool can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Chaozheng Wang , Junhao Hu , Cuiyun Gao , Yu Jin , Tao Xie , Hailiang Huang , Zhenyu Lei , Yuetang Deng

This article describes a very high-level language for clear description of distributed algorithms and optimizations necessary for generating efficient implementations. The language supports high-level control flows where complex…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Yanhong A. Liu , Scott D. Stoller , Bo Lin

Compilers are a prime target for formal verification, since compiler bugs invalidate higher-level correctness guarantees, but compiler changes may become more labor-intensive to implement, if they must come with proof patches. One appealing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jason Gross , Andres Erbsen , Jade Philipoom , Rajashree Agrawal , Adam Chlipala

The ever increasing demands placed upon machine performance have resulted in the need for more comprehensive particle accelerator modeling. Computer simulations are key to the success of particle accelerators. Many aspects of particle…

High-level programming languages play a key role in a growing number of networking platforms, streamlining application development and enabling precise formal reasoning about network behavior. Unfortunately, current compilers only handle…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Steffen Smolka , Spiridon Eliopoulos , Nate Foster , Arjun Guha

Interpreters have a bad reputation for having lower performance than just-in-time compilers. We present a new way of building high performance interpreters that is particularly effective for executing dynamically typed programming…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Stefan Brunthaler

Writing parallel codes is difficult and exhibits a fundamental trade-off between abstraction and performance. The high level language abstractions designed to simplify the complexities of parallelism make certain assumptions that impacts…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Nick Brown , Ludovic Capelli , J. Mark Bull

Maximizing parallelism level in applications can be achieved by minimizing overheads due to load imbalances and waiting time due to memory latencies. Compiler optimization is one of the most effective solutions to tackle this problem. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Zahra Khatami , Hartmut Kaiser , J. Ramanujam

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

We introduce a novel paradigm in compiler optimization powered by Large Language Models with compiler feedback to optimize the code size of LLVM assembly. The model takes unoptimized LLVM IR as input and produces optimized IR, the best…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Dejan Grubisic , Chris Cummins , Volker Seeker , Hugh Leather

Program developers spend significant time on optimizing and tuning programs. During this iterative process, they apply optimizations, analyze the resulting code, and modify the compilation until they are satisfied. Understanding what the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Sabin Devkota , Pascal Aschwanden , Adam Kunen , Matthew Legendre , Katherine E. Isaacs

If we can automatically derive compiler optimizations, we might be able to sidestep some of the substantial engineering challenges involved in creating and maintaining a high-quality compiler. We developed Souper, a synthesizing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Raimondas Sasnauskas , Yang Chen , Peter Collingbourne , Jeroen Ketema , Gratian Lup , Jubi Taneja , John Regehr

Numerous code optimization techniques, including loop nest optimizations, have been developed over the last four decades. Loop optimization techniques transform loop nests to improve the performance of the code on a target architecture,…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Aniket Shivam , Neftali Watkinson , Alexandru Nicolau , David Padua , Alexander V. Veidenbaum

FPGAs are well-suited for dataflow architectures that process data in a streaming or pipelined manner, thus satisfying the high computational and communication demands of emerging applications. However, manually implementing an efficient…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Weichuang Zhang , Yiquan Wang , Xinzhou Zhang , Chi Zhang , Yu Feng , Xiaofeng Hou , Chao Li , Jieru Zhao , Minyi Guo