Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures (Hardcover)

Randy Allen

ISBN 10: 1558602860 / ISBN 13: 9781558602861

Published by Elsevier Science & Technology, San Francisco, 2001

Hardcover. Modern computer architectures designed with high-performance microprocessors offer tremendous potential gains in performance over previous designs. Yet their very complexity makes it increasingly difficult to produce efficient code and to realize their full potential. This landmark text from two leaders in the field focuses on the pivotal role that compilers can play in addressing this critical issue. The basis for all the methods presented in this book is data dependence, a fundamental compiler analysis tool for optimizing programs on high-performance microprocessors and parallel architectures. It enables compiler designers to write compilers that automatically transform simple, sequential programs into forms that can exploit special features of these modern architectures. The text provides a broad introduction to data dependence, to the many transformation strategies it supports, and to its applications to important optimization problems such as parallelization, compiler memory hierarchy management, and instruction scheduling.The authors demonstrate the importance and wide applicability of dependence-based compiler optimizations and give the compiler writer the basics needed to understand and implement them. They also offer cookbook explanations for transforming applications by hand to computational scientists and engineers who are driven to obtain the best possible performance of their complex applications. The approaches presented are based on research conducted over the past two decades, emphasizing the strategies implemented in research prototypes at Rice University and in several associated commercial systems. Randy Allen and Ken Kennedy have provided an indispensable resource for researchers, practicing professionals, and graduate students engaged in designing and optimizing compilers for modern computer architectures. Aims to enable compiler designers to write compilers that automatically transform simple, sequential programs into forms that can exploit special features of the modern architectures. This text provides an introduction to data dependence, to the many transformation strategies it supports, and to its applications to important optimization problems. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781558602861

Bibliographic Details

Title: Optimizing Compilers for Modern ...
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology, San Francisco
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new