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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.51

Bridging the Gap Between General-Purpose and Domain-Specific Compilers with Synthesis

Authors: Alvin Cheung, Shoaib Kamil, and Armando Solar-Lezama

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 32, 1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015)

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This paper describes a new approach to program optimization that allows general purpose code to benefit from the optimization power of domain-specific compilers. The key to this approach is a synthesis-based technique to raise the level of abstraction of general-purpose code to enable aggressive domain-specific optimizations. We have been implementing this approach in an extensible system called Herd. The system is designed around a collection of parameterized kernel translators. Each kernel translator is associated with a domain-specific compiler, and the role of each kernel translator is to scan the input code in search of code fragments that can be optimized by the domain-specific compiler embedded within each kernel translator. By leveraging general synthesis technology, it is possible to have a generic kernel translator that can be specialized by compiler developers for each domain-specific compiler, making it easy to build new domain knowledge into the overall system. We illustrate this new approach to build optimizing compilers in two different domains, and highlight research challenges that need to be addressed in order to achieve the ultimate vision.

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Alvin Cheung, Shoaib Kamil, and Armando Solar-Lezama. Bridging the Gap Between General-Purpose and Domain-Specific Compilers with Synthesis. In 1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 32, pp. 51-62, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@InProceedings{cheung_et_al:LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.51,
  author =	{Cheung, Alvin and Kamil, Shoaib and Solar-Lezama, Armando},
  title =	{{Bridging the Gap Between General-Purpose and Domain-Specific Compilers with Synthesis}},
  booktitle =	{1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015)},
  pages =	{51--62},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-80-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{32},
  editor =	{Ball, Thomas and Bodík, Rastislav and Krishnamurthi, Shriram and Lerner, Benjamin S. and Morriset, Greg},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.51},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-50162},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.51},
  annote =	{Keywords: compilers, domain-specific languages, program synthesis, cross compilation, verification}
}

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