Re: compiler optimization project

khubaib wrote:
> I am a graduate student doing major in computer architecture, and I am
> taking a course on optimizing compilers. There is a term project
> involved in this course, and I was looking for ideas. The
> infrastructure that we have used so far in the course is JIKES RVM,
> and I hope to continue using it for the project. I am interested in
> register allocation and scheduling (mostly the backend, near to
> machine). Could any one please suggest an idea? As I am from
> architecture background, I was thinking of something like scheduling
> issues for upcoming multiple-core based machines. In a multiple core
> machine, there might be some simple and some very aggressive
> processors, and studying what optimization should be done for which
> core can be beneficial. (thinking on those lines...).


You might probably be interested in the Apache Harmony project
(opensource Java SE).


We have an agressively optimizing JIT compiler with a number of
sophisticated optimizations. We also have a JIT "TODO List"
with ideas/suggestions for further development:
http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/JIT_Development_Tasks
("BBP" (back-branch polling) is a scheduling issue, for example:)


feel free to take ideas and participate ;)


--
Egor Pasko

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