HyperLink   On Extracting Coarse-Grained Function Parallelism From C Programs
   
Publication Year:
  2006
Authors
  Chien-wei Li
   
Published:
  PhD Thesis. Computer Science. University of Illinois, 2006.
   
Abstract:

We built an in-lining based prototype of the memory data-flow analysis system on top of the IMPACT compiler infrastructure. We applied the prototype to analyze the memory data-flow of several MediaBench programs. The experiment results showed that while the prototype performed reasonably well for the tested programs, the in-lining based implementation may not efficient for larger programs. Also, there is still room in improving the effectiveness of the memory data-flow analysis system. We did root cause analysis for the inaccuracy in the memory data-flow analysis results, which provided us insights on how to improve the memory data-flow analysis system in the future.