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Third IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation
p. 65
Design of the CodeBoost Transformation System for Domain-Specific Optimisation of C++ Programs
Otto Skrove Bagge, Chr. Michelsen Research AS
Karl Trygve Kalleberg, University of Bergen
Magne Haveraaen, University of Bergen
Eelco Visser, Utrecht University
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The use of a high-level, abstract coding style can greatly increase developer productivity. For numerical software, this can result in drastically reduced run-time performance. High-level, domain-specific optimisations can eliminate much of the overhead caused by an abstract coding style, but current compilers have poor support for domain-specific optimisation. In this paper we present CodeBoost, a source-to-source transformation tool for domain-specific optimisation of C++ programs. CodeBoost performs parsing, semantic analysis and pretty-printing, and transformations can be implemented either in the Stratego program transformation language, or as user-defined rewrite rules embedded within the C++ program. CodeBoost has been used with great success to optimise numerical applications written in the Sophus high-level coding style. We discuss the overall design of the CodeBoost transformation framework, and take a closer look at two important features of CodeBoost: user-defined rules and totem annotations. We also show briefly how CodeBoost is used to optimise Sophus code, resulting in applications that run twice as fast, or more.
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Otto Skrove Bagge, Karl Trygve Kalleberg, Magne Haveraaen, Eelco Visser,
"Design of the CodeBoost Transformation System for Domain-Specific Optimisation of C++ Programs,"
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p. 65,
Third IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation,
2003
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