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Predicting the effects of optimization on a procedure body

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 14, Issue 8

Pages 214 - 220

https://doi.org/10.1145/872732.806972

Published: 01 August 1979 Publication History

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Practical application of procedure integration (inline expansion) as a program optimization requires some method for estimating the effects of subsequent optimization on the integrated procedure. A technique is described for predicting the code improvement that can be expected due to constant folding and test elision when a procedure call involving constant actual parameters is integrated. The technique is based on information collected during a single data flow analysis of each procedure body, and on execution frequency statistics for the procedure. This information can then be used to estimate the cost in code size and the benefit in execution speed of integrating each call to the procedure. The algorithm uses a syntax directed analysis technique suitable for structured programming languages without gotos.

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 14, Issue 8

Proceedings of the 1979 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction

August 1979

234 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/872732

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SIGPLAN '79: Proceedings of the 1979 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction
August 1979
241 pages
ISBN:0897910028
DOI:10.1145/800229
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