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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
May. 15, 2015
Applicant:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Vinod Grover, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Thibaut Lutz, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/45 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/49 (2013.01); G06F 8/42 (2013.01); G06F 8/443 (2013.01); G06F 9/445 (2013.01); G06F 9/45516 (2013.01);
Abstract
A solution is proposed for implementing staging in computer programs and code specialization at runtime. Even when values are not known at compile time, many of the values used as parameters for a code section or a function are constant, and are known prior to starting the computation of the algorithm. Embodiments of the claimed subject matter propagate these values just before execution in the same way a compiler would if they were compile time constant, resulting in improved control flow and significant simplification in the computation involved.