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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1999
Craig Chambers, Seattle, WA (US);
Susan J. Eggers, Seattle, WA (US);
Brian K. Grant, Shoreline, WA (US);
Markus Mock, Seattle, WA (US);
Matthai Philipose, Seattle, WA (US);
University of Washington, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Selective dynamic compilation of source code is performed using run-time information. A system is disclosed that implements a declarative, annotation based dynamic compilation of the source code, employing a partial evaluation, binding-time analysis (BTA), and including program-point-specific polyvariant division and specialization and dynamic versions of traditional global and peephole optimizations. The system allows programmers to declaratively specify policies that govern the aggressiveness of specialization and caching, providing fine control over the dynamic compilation process. The policies include directions for controlling specialization at promotion points and merge points, and further define caching policies, and speculative-specialization policies. The system also enables programmers to specialize programs across arbitrary edges, both at traditional locations, such as procedure boundaries, but also within procedures. Programmers are enabled to conditionally specialize programs based on evaluation of arbitrary compile-time and run-time conditions.