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Fast Profile-Based Partial Redundancy Elimination

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Partial Redundancy Elimination (PRE) is a standard program optimization which removes redundant computations via Code Motion. It subsumes and generalizes the optimizations of Global Common Subexpression Elimination (GCSE) and Loop Invariant Code Motion (LICM). Recent work has generalized PRE to become Speculative PRE (SPRE), which uses estimates of execution frequencies to find the optimal places in a program to perform computations. However, the analysis performed by the compiler is computationally intensive and hence impractical for just-in-time (JIT) compilers.

This paper introduces a novel approach which abandons a guarantee of optimality in favour of simplicity and speed of analysis. This new approach, called Isothermal SPRE, achieves results which are close to optimal in practice, yet its analysis time is at least as good as current compiler techniques for code motion. It is a technique suitable for use in JIT compilers.

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  • Compilation Time
  • Compiler Optimization
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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada

    R. Nigel Horspool & David J. Pereira

  2. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Madsen Building F09, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

    Bernhard Scholz

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  1. School of Technology, Department of Computing, Oxford Brookes University, OX33 1HX, Oxford, UK

    David E. Lightfoot

  2. Microsoft, USA

    Clemens Szyperski

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Horspool, R.N., Pereira, D.J., Scholz, B. (2006). Fast Profile-Based Partial Redundancy Elimination. In: Lightfoot, D.E., Szyperski, C. (eds) Modular Programming Languages. JMLC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4228. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11860990_22

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