Trace-based Register Allocation in a JIT Compiler

@article{Eisl2016TracebasedRA,
  title={Trace-based Register Allocation in a JIT Compiler},
  author={Josef Eisl and Matthias Grimmer and Doug Simon and Thomas W{\"u}rthinger and Hanspeter M{\"o}ssenb{\"o}ck},
  journal={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java Platform: Virtual Machines, Languages, and Tools},
  year={2016}
}
  • J. EislMatthias Grimmer H. Mössenböck
  • Published 29 August 2016
  • Computer Science
  • Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java Platform: Virtual Machines, Languages, and Tools
State-of-the-art dynamic compilers often use global approaches, like Linear Scan or Graph Coloring, for register allocation. [] Key Method Traces reduce the problem size to a single linear code segment, which simplifies the problem a register allocator needs to solve. Additionally, we can apply different register allocation algorithms to each trace. We show that this non-global approach can achieve results competitive to global register allocation. We present an implementation of Trace Register Allocation…
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