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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2021.15

Best-Effort Lazy Evaluation for Python Software Built on APIs

Authors: Guoqiang Zhang and Xipeng Shen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 194, 35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2021)

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This paper focuses on an important optimization opportunity in Python-hosted domain-specific languages (DSLs): the use of laziness for optimization, whereby multiple API calls are deferred and then optimized prior to execution (rather than executing eagerly, which would require executing each call in isolation). In existing supports of lazy evaluation, laziness is "terminated" as soon as control passes back to the host language in any way, limiting opportunities for optimization. This paper presents Cunctator, a framework that extends this laziness to more of the Python language, allowing intermediate values from DSLs like NumPy or Pandas to flow back to the host Python code without triggering evaluation. This exposes more opportunities for optimization and, more generally, allows for larger computation graphs to be built, producing 1.03-14.2X speedups on a set of programs in common libraries and frameworks.

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Guoqiang Zhang and Xipeng Shen. Best-Effort Lazy Evaluation for Python Software Built on APIs. In 35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 194, pp. 15:1-15:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{zhang_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2021.15,
  author =	{Zhang, Guoqiang and Shen, Xipeng},
  title =	{{Best-Effort Lazy Evaluation for Python Software Built on APIs}},
  booktitle =	{35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2021)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-190-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{194},
  editor =	{M{\o}ller, Anders and Sridharan, Manu},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2021.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-140582},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2021.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Lazy Evaluation, Python, API Optimization}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.26

Towards Ontology-Based Program Analysis

Authors: Yue Zhao, Guoyang Chen, Chunhua Liao, and Xipeng Shen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 56, 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016)

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Program analysis is fundamental for program optimizations, debugging, and many other tasks. But developing program analyses has been a challenging and error-prone process for general users. Declarative program analysis has shown the promise to dramatically improve the productivity in the development of program analyses. Current declarative program analysis is however subject to some major limitations in supporting cooperations among analysis tools, guiding program optimizations, and often requires much effort for repeated program preprocessing. In this work, we advocate the integration of ontology into declarative program analysis. As a way to standardize the definitions of concepts in a domain and the representation of the knowledge in the domain, ontology offers a promising way to address the limitations of current declarative program analysis. We develop a prototype framework named PATO for conducting program analysis upon ontology-based program representation. Experiments on six program analyses confirm the potential of ontology for complementing existing declarative program analysis. It supports multiple analyses without separate program preprocessing, promotes cooperative Liveness analysis between two compilers, and effectively guides a data placement optimization for Graphic Processing Units (GPU).

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Yue Zhao, Guoyang Chen, Chunhua Liao, and Xipeng Shen. Towards Ontology-Based Program Analysis. In 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 56, pp. 26:1-26:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{zhao_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.26,
  author =	{Zhao, Yue and Chen, Guoyang and Liao, Chunhua and Shen, Xipeng},
  title =	{{Towards Ontology-Based Program Analysis}},
  booktitle =	{30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016)},
  pages =	{26:1--26:25},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-014-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{56},
  editor =	{Krishnamurthi, Shriram and Lerner, Benjamin S.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.26},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-61201},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.26},
  annote =	{Keywords: ontology, compiler, program analysis}
}

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