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An infrastructure for dynamic optimization of parallel programs

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Object-oriented programming languages like Java provide only low-level constructs (e.g., starting a thread) to describe concurrency. High-level abstractions (e.g., thread pools) are merely provided as a library. As a result, a compiler is not aware of the high-level semantics of a parallel library and therefore misses important optimization opportunities. This paper presents a simple source language extension based on which a compiler is provided with the opportunity to perform new optimizations that are particularly effective for parallel code.

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        cover image ACM SIGPLAN Notices
        ACM SIGPLAN Notices  Volume 47, Issue 8
        PPOPP '12
        August 2012
        334 pages
        ISSN:0362-1340
        EISSN:1558-1160
        DOI:10.1145/2370036
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        • cover image ACM Conferences
          PPoPP '12: Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
          February 2012
          352 pages
          ISBN:9781450311601
          DOI:10.1145/2145816

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