Re: latest trends in compiler optimization research?

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
01 Aug 2007 20:41:43 +0100 (BST)

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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 01 Aug 2007 20:41:43 +0100 (BST)
Organization: dotat labs
References: 07-07-107 07-07-111
Keywords: optimize, design
Posted-Date: 07 Aug 2007 09:39:31 EDT

Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net> wrote:
>
>I don't know what the latest research work or trends are, but
>I can say what some of the biggest problems that compiler
>writers need to solve in modern architectures are.
>
>Effective use of multi-core CPU's,
>Effective use of multi-CPU architectures,
>Effective use of shared memory and cache in multi-CPU architectures,
>Effective use of per-CPU memory or per-core memory in multi-CPU
> architectures.


I don't think these are problems that can be tackled just by compiler
writers: they are more in the realm of language designers or system
architects (depending on whether you put the features in the language
or the library). Promising approaches include:


* message-passing, such as in Erlang
* software transactional memory
* data-parallel array ops


all of which require the right kind of application design to work.
Of course the compiler writer has to make them work *well*, but that's
out of scope if the compiler implements C.


Tony.
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