Data-Flow Analysis for Multi-Core Computing Systems: A Reminder to Reverse Data-Flow Analysis

The increasing demands for highly performant, proven correct, easily maintainable, extensible programs together with the continuous growth of real-world programs strengthen the pressure for powerful and scalable program analyses for program development and code generation. Multi-core computing systems offer new chances for enhancing the scalability of program analyses, if the additional computing power offered by these systems can be used effectively. This, however, poses new challenges on the analysis side. In principle, it requires program analyses which can be easily parallelized and mapped to multi-core architectures. In this paper we remind to reverse data-flow analysis, which has been introduced and investigated in the context of demand-driven data-flow analysis, as one such class of program analyses which is particularly suitable for this.