[PRL] PLDI Practice Talk 2, TODAY, 4:30pm in 366

[William J. Bowman]

Talk delayed until 4:45 to accommodate our visitor's schedule.

-- 
William J. Bowman

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 09:33:22AM -0400, William J. Bowman wrote:
> Sorry for the short notice, but I wasn't sure I would actually have
> everything rewritten by today.
> 
> In light of the short notice, the late time slot, and the busy day, I
> don't expect everyone to attend, but I appreciate those who can come and
> give feedback.
> 
> 
> Profile-Guided Meta-Programming
> 
> Abstract:
> Contemporary compiler systems such as GCC, .NET, and LLVM incorporate
> profile-guided optimizations (PGOs) on low-level intermediate code and
> basic blocks, with impressive results over purely static heuristics.
> Recent work shows that profile information is also useful for performing
> source-to-source optimizations via meta-programming.
> For example, using profiling information to inform decisions about data
> structures and algorithms can potentially lead to asymptotic
> improvements in performance.
> 
> We present a design for profile-guided meta-programming in a
> general-purpose meta-programming system.
> Our design is parametric over the particular profiler and
> meta-programming system.
> We implement this design in two different meta-programming systems---the
> syntactic extensions systems of Chez Scheme and Racket---and provide
> several profile-guided meta-programs as usability case studies.
> 
> 
> -- 
> William J. Bowman
> 
> Northeastern University
> College of Computer and Information Science



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