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DASS: Dynamic Adaptive Sub-Target Specialization
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- Author / Creator
- Gobran, Tyler
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A new microprocessor within a given processor architecture may introduce performance-improving features that either can only be accessed through novel instructions or require new code-generation techniques to be beneficial. In response, compilers must be extended/improved to make use of these new instructions and to generate better schedules for the new hardware. The compiler improvements that enable these specializations can take significant time to develop, thus applications compiled Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) will often
not benefit from code specialization without later recompilation. Furthermore, code compiled for a specific hardware sub-target lacks performance portability, thus, for better performance, there is a need to maintain multiple builds for each processor architecture leading to significant development and maintenance costs. This thesis provides an overview of existing sub-target specialization methods and demonstrates that challenges to existing methods can be overcome by applying code specialization only to a small percentage of the code in a program. Moreover, it proposes DASS, a novel Dynamic Adaptive Sub-Target Specialization technique to recompile selected parts of a program at runtime. Empirical evidence indicates that selective specialization can achieve up to 93% of whole-program specialization speedup by statically specializing less than 1.5% of the application code. Furthermore, DASS can dynamically achieve performance close to that of static specialization, reaching up to 83% of statically attainable speedup while performing recompilation and redirection during execution. -
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- Graduation date
- Fall 2023
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Master of Science
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- License
- This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.