Region-based compilation: introduction, motivation, and initial experience

Functional collection combinators are a neat and widely accepted data processing abstraction. However, their generic nature results in high abstraction overheads -- Scala collections are known to be notoriously slow for typical tasks. We show that ...

Method inlining and data flow analysis are two major optimization components for effective program transformations, but they often suffer from the existence of rarely or never executed code contained in the target method. One major problem lies in the ...