This article presents Codelet Extractor and REplayer (CERE), an open-source framework for
code isolation. CERE finds and extracts the hotspots of an application as isolated fragments …

Gradual ty** has emerged as a popular design point in programming languages,
attracting significant interests from both academia and industry. Programmers in gradually …

This article presents Kadabra, a Java source-to-source compiler that allows users to make
code queries, code analysis and code transformations, all user-programmable using the …

Computer programs commonly repeat work. Short programs go through the same
initialisation sequence each time they are run, and long-running servers may be given a …

Fast compilation is essential for JIT-compilation use cases like dynamic languages or
databases as well as development productivity when compiling static languages. Template …

The bit-matrix multiplication (BMM) has until now only been implemented on the Cray
supercomputers. Since then multiple publications have proved the usefulness of this …

Tuning an application to a given architecture has become a complex procedure.
Sophisticated hardware obfuscates the path to easily writing peak-performance applications …

Specialization of code is used to improve the performance of the applications. However,
specialization based on ineffective profiles deteriorates the performance. Existing value …

To fully exploit the instruction‐level parallelism offered by modern processors, compilers
need the necessary information available during the execution of the program. This …

Based on feedback information, a large number of optimizations can be performed by the
compiler. This information actually indicates the changing behavior of the applications and …