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Just-in-time (JIT) compilers are key components for many popular programming languages with managed runtimes (e.g., Java and JavaScript). JIT compilers perform optimizations and generate native code at runtime based on dynamic profiling…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Zijian Yi , Cheng Ding , August Shi , Milos Gligoric

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format designed as a portable compilation target, which has been widely used on both the web and server sides in recent years. As high performance is a critical design goal of Wasm, it is essential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shuyao Jiang , Ruiying Zeng , Yangfan Zhou , Michael R. Lyu

Interpreted execution of queries, as in the vectorized model, suffers from interpretation overheads. By compiling queries this interpretation overhead is eliminated at the cost of a compilation phase that delays execution, sacrificing…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Immanuel Haffner , Jens Dittrich

While the prominent quantum computing architectures are based on superconducting technology, new quantum hardware technologies are emerging, such as Trapped Ions, Neutral Atoms (or FPQAs), Silicon Spin Qubits, etc. This diverse set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Oğuzcan Kırmemiş , Francisco Romão , Emmanouil Giortamis , Pramod Bhatotia

Fast compilation is important when compilation occurs at runtime, such as query compilers in modern database systems and WebAssembly virtual machines in modern browsers. We present copy-and-patch, an extremely fast compilation technique…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Haoran Xu , Fredrik Kjolstad

Recently, crossbar array based in-memory accelerators have been gaining interest due to their high throughput and energy efficiency. While software and compiler support for the in-memory accelerators has also been introduced, they are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jihoon Park , Jeongin Choe , Dohyun Kim , Jae-Joon Kim

Just-in-Time (JIT) compilers are used by many modern programming systems in order to improve performance. Bugs in JIT compilers provide exploitable security vulnerabilities and debugging them is difficult as they are large, complex, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-02 HeuiChan Lim , Stephen Kobourov

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

The rapid advancement of AI-assisted software engineering has brought transformative potential to the field of software engineering, but existing tools and paradigms remain limited by cognitive overload, inefficient tool integration, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Filipe R. Cogo , Gustavo A. Oliva , Ahmed E. Hassan

Modern tensor compilers such as TorchInductor deliver substantial speedups on mainstream models, yet face a systematic performance ceiling on long-tail workloads -- our profiling shows that 43% of real-world subgraphs experience end-to-end…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yiqun Liu , Yingsheng Wu , Ruqi Yang , Enrong Zheng , Honglei Qiu , Sijun He , Tai Liang , Jingjing Wu , Yuhan Zhou , Yiwei Zhang , Dongyan Chen , Weihan Yi , Xinqi Li , Siqi Bao

Meta-compiler frameworks, such as RPython and Graal/Truffle, generate high-performance virtual machines (VMs) from interpreter definitions. Although they generate VMs with high-quality just-in-time (JIT) compilers, they still lack an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yusuke Izawa , Hidehiko Masuhara , Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick

Modern, powerful virtual machines such as those running Java or JavaScript support multi-tier JIT compilation and optimization features to achieve their high performance. However, implementing and maintaining several compilers/optimizers…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yusuke Izawa , Hidehiko Masuhara , Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick

An optimizing compiler consists of a front end parsing a textual programming language into an intermediate representation (IR), a middle end performing optimizations on the IR, and a back end lowering the IR to a target representation (TR)…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-11-22 Sebastian Buchwald , Edgar Jakumeit

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a low-level bytecode format that can run in modern browsers. With the development of standalone runtimes and the improvement of the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI), Wasm has further provided a more complete…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Chenxi Mao , Yuxin Su , Shiwen Shan , Dan Li

While model serving has unlocked unprecedented capabilities, the high cost of serving large-scale models continues to be a significant barrier to widespread accessibility and rapid innovation. Compiler optimizations have long driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Annabelle Sujun Tang , Christopher Priebe , Rohan Mahapatra , Lianhui Qin , Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

Computing-in-memory (CIM) architectures demonstrate superior performance over traditional architectures. To unleash the potential of CIM accelerators, many compilation methods have been proposed, focusing on application scheduling…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Shixin Zhao , Yuming Li , Bing Li , Yintao He , Mengdi Wang , Yinhe Han , Ying Wang

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

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format designed for secure and efficient execution within sandboxed environments -- predominantly web apps and browsers -- to facilitate performance, security, and flexibility of web programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Muhammad Waseem , Teerath Das , Aakash Ahmad , Peng Liang , Tommi Mikkonen

Compilers are used to run programs that are written in a range of designs from text to executable formats. With the advent of the internet, studies related to the development of cloud based compilers are being carried out. There is a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Ramkumar Lakshminarayanan , Balaji Dhanasekaran , Ben George Ephre

Virtual Machines (VMs) combine interpreters and just-in-time (JIT) compiled code to achieve good performance. However, implementing different execution engines increases the cost of developing and maintaining such solutions. JIT compilers…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Nahuel Palumbo , Guillermo Polito , Stéphane Ducasse , Pablo Tesone