Title
Using machines to learn method-specific compilation strategies
Abstract
Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are used to discover method-specific compilation strategies in Testarossa, a commercial Just-in-Time (JiT) compiler employed in the IBM® J9 Java™ Virtual Machine. The learning process explores a large number of different compilation strategies to generate the data needed for training models. The trained machine-learned model is integrated with the compiler to predict a compilation plan that balances code quality and compilation effort on a per-method basis. The machine-learned plans outperform the original Testarossa for start-up performance, but not for throughput performance, for which Testarossa has been highly hand-tuned for many years.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/CGO.2011.5764693
CGO
Keywords
Field
DocType
trained machine-learned model,method-specific compilation strategy,machine-learned plan,different compilation strategy,j9 java,original testarossa,throughput performance,start-up performance,compilation effort,compilation plan,radiation detectors,optimization,virtual machine,support vector machines,java,learning artificial intelligence,just in time compiler,support vector machine,code quality,machine learning,data models,virtual machines
Data modeling,Virtual machine,Programming language,Dynamic compilation,Computer science,Support vector machine,Compiler,Real-time computing,Just-in-time compilation,Tracing just-in-time compilation,Software quality
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2164-2397
978-1-61284-356-8
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
13
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez170.84
Jose Nelson Amaral27012.40
D. Szafron31579210.88
Marius Pirvu492.23
Mark Stoodley51198.71