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Dataflow Analysis: Optimization

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CS-420: Advanced compiler construction

Students learn several implementation techniques for modern functional and object-oriented programming languages. They put some of them into practice by developing key parts of a compiler and run time system for a simple functional programming language. ...

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This lecture covers dataflow analysis for optimization purposes, focusing on equations solving, live variables, reaching definitions, and very busy expressions. It explains how to speed up dataflow analyses using work-list algorithms, equation ordering, basic blocks, and bit-vectors. The instructor emphasizes the importance of intermediate representations (IRs) in code optimization and discusses rewriting optimizations in machine-independent contexts.

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Instructor

Michel Schinz

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Computer engineering

Computer programming: Compilers

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Optimizing compiler

In computing, an optimizing compiler is a compiler that tries to minimize or maximize some attributes of an executable computer program. Common requirements are to minimize a program's execution time, memory footprint, storage size, and power consumption (the last three being popular for portable computers). Compiler optimization is generally implemented using a sequence of optimizing transformations, algorithms which take a program and transform it to produce a semantically equivalent output program that uses fewer resources or executes faster.

Sorting algorithm

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Divide-and-conquer algorithm

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Interprocedural optimization

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