October 06, 2004
Hilton Suites Toronto/Markham Conference Centre
Markham, ON
Associated with CASCON 2004
(http://www.cas.ibm.com/cascon)
A Method of Interprocedural Strength Reduction
Shimin Cui - IBM Toronto Lab
Strength reduction is a well known technique for optimizing code by
reformulating certain costly computations in terms of less expensive ones.
We will discuss an interprocedural compilation method for reducing the
costly computations in strength interprocedurally to improve the
performance in the execution of the compiled code. Based on the cost
analysis, a global variable is generated to maintain the value of the
computations. The global variable is updated every time when the
computations may change, while the costly computation in the loop is
replaced by a cheap computation, such as the load of the global variable.
We will also discuss the extension of the method to improve the data cache
performance in addition to the strength reduction interprocedurally.
Presentation Slides.