Profile‐guided automatic inline expansion for C programs

Pohua P. Chang; Scott A. Mahlke; William Y. Chen; Wen‐Mei W. Hwu

doi:10.1002/spe.4380220502

Profile‐guided automatic inline expansion for C programs

Pohua P. Chang, Scott A. Mahlke, William Y. Chen, Wen‐Mei W. Hwu

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Abstract

This paper describes critical implementation issues that must be addressed to develop a fully automatic inliner. These issues are: integration into a compiler, program representation, hazard prevention, expansion sequence control, and program modification. An automatic inter‐file inliner that uses profile information has been implemented and integrated into an optimizing C compiler. The experimental results show that this inliner achieves significant speedups for production C programs.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	349-369
Number of pages	21
Journal	Software: Practice and Experience
Volume	22
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380220502
State	Published - May 1992

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Keywords

C compiler
Code optimization
Inline expansion
Profile information

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Software

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Chang, P. P., Mahlke, S. A., Chen, W. Y., & Hwu, WM. W. (1992). Profile‐guided automatic inline expansion for C programs. Software: Practice and Experience, 22(5), 349-369. https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380220502

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