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Link-Time Path-Sensitive Memory Redundancy Elimination
Madrid, Spain February 14-February 18
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Manel Fernández, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Roger Espasa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Optimizations performed at link-time or directly applied to final program executables have received increased attention in recent years. This paper discusses the discovery and elimination of redundant memory operations in the context of a link-time optimizer, an optimization that we call Memory Redundancy Elimination (MRE). Previous research showed that existing MRE techniques are mainly based on path-insensitive information, which causes many MRE opportunities to be lost. We present a new technique for eliminating redundant loads in a path-sensitive fashion, by using a novel alias analysis algorithm that is able to expose path-sensitive memory redundancies. The paper also extends our previous work by removing both redundant and dead stores. Our experiments show that around 75% of load and 10% of store references in a program can be considered redundant, because they are accessing memory locations that have been referenced less than 256 memory instructions away. By combining our previous optimizations for eliminating load redundancies with the new techniques developed in this paper, we show that around 18% of the loads and 8% of the stores can be detected and eliminated, which translates into a 10% reduction in execution time.
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Manel Fernández, Roger Espasa, "Link-Time Path-Sensitive Memory Redundancy Elimination," hpca, pp.300, 10th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA'04), 2004
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