Title
Ufs: A Global Trade-Off Strategy For Loop Unrolling For Vliw Architectures
Abstract
Embedded systems are increasingly expected to provide good performance at low cost. As the characteristics of compiled code can have an impact on the overall cost of an embedded system, a compilation strategy must be cost aware as well as achieve high performance. As one major factor for system cost is memory size, code size becomes an important issue in code generation. Thus, cost-effective optimization strategies that are able to perform a good trade-off between code size and performance improvement are needed. In this paper, we propose a novel method based on Integer Linear Programming for computing efficient unroll factors for collections of loop nests with control over code size and side-effects of the transformation. We define a notion of trade-off between code size and performance. Experiments on the Philips Trimedia show that our method achieves excellent trade-offs. Copyright (c) 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1002/cpe.1014
CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
loop unrolling, iterative compilation, code optimization, feedback directed compilation, instruction level parallelism
Journal
18
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
1532-0626
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karine Heydemann111613.65
François Bodin264884.59
Peter M. W. Knijnenburg331426.58
Laurent Morin4644.18