Fast and Efficient Searches for Effective Optimization-Phase Sequences

ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 165-198

  Kulkarni, Prasad A ^a   Hines, Stephen R ^a   Whalley, David B ^a   Hiser, Jason D ^b   Davidson, Jack W ^b   Jones, Douglas L ^c  

^a Florida State University   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Experimentation; Genetic algorithms; Interactive compilation; Measurement; Performance; Phase ordering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961971066     PISSN: 15443566     EISSN: 15443973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1071604.1071607     Document Type: Article

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