Translation and run-time validation of loop transformations

Formal Methods in System Design

Volumn 27, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 335-360

  Zuck, Lenore ^a   Pnueli, Amir ^b   Goldberg, Benjamin ^c   Barrett, Clark ^c   Fang, Yi ^c   Hu, Ying ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^b Weizmann Institute of Science   (Israel)

^c POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global optimizations; Loop transformations; Optimizing compilers; Reordering transformations; Run time validation; Speculative optimizations; Translation validation; Verification conditions

Indexed keywords

LOOP TRANSFORMATIONS; RUN-TIME VALIDATION; SPECULATIVE OPTIMIZATIONS; TRANSLATION VALIDATION; VERIFICATION CONDITIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM COMPILERS;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 26444616193     PISSN: 09259856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10703-005-3402-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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