Fractal Symbolic Analysis for Program Transformations (*new file*)
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Restructuring compilers use dependence analysis to prove that the meaning of a program is not changed by a transformation. A well-known limitation of dependence analysis is that it examines only the memory locations read and written by a statement, and does not assume any particular interpretation for the operations in that statement. Exploiting the semantics of these operations enables a wider set of transformations to be used, and is critical for optimizing important codes such as LU factorization with pivoting. Symbolic execution of programs enables the exploitation of such semantic properties, but it is intractable for all but the simplest programs. In this paper, we propose a new form of symbolic analysis for use in restructuring compilers. Fractal symbolic analysis compares a program and its transformed version by repeatedly simplifying these programs until symbolic analysis becomes tractable, ensuring that equality of simplified programs is sufficient to guarantee equality of the original programs. We present a prototype implementation of fractal symbolic analysis, and show how it can be used to optimize the cache performance of LU factorization with pivoting.
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2000-02-02
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Cornell University
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