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Code optimization for tagged-token data flow machines

Journal Article · · IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Transactions on Computers; (USA)
OSTI ID:5347935
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  1. Manchester Univ. (UK). Computer Center
The efficiency of dataflow code generated from a high-level language can be improved dramatically by both conventional and dataflow-specific optimizations. Such techniques are used in implementing the single-assignment language SISAL on the Manchester Dataflow Machine. The quality of code generated for numeric applications can be measured in terms of the ratio of total number of instructions executed to floating point operations: the MIPS/MFLOPS ratio. Relevant features of the general purpose single-assignment language SISAL and the Manchester Dataflow Machine are introduced. After an assessment of the initial SISAL implementation, showing it to be very expensive, a range of optimizations are described.
OSTI ID:
5347935
Journal Information:
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Transactions on Computers; (USA), Journal Name: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Transactions on Computers; (USA) Vol. 38:1; ISSN ITCOB; ISSN 0018-9340
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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