Sreraman, N and Govindarajan, R (2000) A vectorizing Compiler for Multimedia Extensions. In: International Journal of Parallel Programming, 28 (4). pp. 363-400.
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In this paper, we present an implementation of a vectorizing C compiler for Intel's MMX (Multimedia Extension). This compiler would identify data parallel sections of the code using scalar and array dependence analysis. To enhance the scope for application of the subword semantics, our compiler performs several code transformations. These include strip mining, scalar expansion, grouping and reduction, and distribution. Thereafter inline assembly instructions corresponding to the data parallel sections are generated. We have used the Stanford University Intermediate Format (SUIF), a public domain compiler tool, for our implementation. We evaluated the performance of the code generated by our compiler for a number of benchmarks. Initial performance results reveal that our compiler generated code produces a reasonable performance improvement (speedup of 2 to 6.5) over the the code generated without the vectorizing transformations/inline assembly. In certain cases, the performance of the compiler generated code is within 85% of the hand-tuned code for MMX architecture
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | International Journal of Parallel Programming |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to Springer. |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2008 12:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/7984 |
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