The July issue of TOPLAS contains a 50 page discussion of the AST generation
techniques used in Polly. This discussion gives not only an in-depth
description of how we (re)generate an imperative AST from our polyhedral based
mathematical program description, but also gives interesting insights about:
- Schedule trees: A tree-based mathematical program description that enables us
to perform loop transformations on an abstract level, while issues like the
generation of the correct loop structure and loop bounds will be taken care of
by our AST generator.
- Polyhedral unrolling: We discuss techniques that allow the unrolling of
non-trivial loops in the context of parameteric loop bounds, complex tile
shapes and conditionally executed statements. Such unrolling support enables
the generation of predicated code e.g. in the context of GPGPU computing.
- Isolation for full/partial tile separation: We discuss native support for
handling full/partial tile separation and -- in general -- native support for
isolation of boundary cases to enable smooth code generation for core
computations.
- AST generation with modulo constraints: We discuss how modulo mappings are
lowered to efficient C/LLVM code.
- User-defined constraint sets for run-time checks We discuss how arbitrary
sets of constraints can be used to automatically create run-time checks that
ensure a set of constrainst actually hold. This feature is very useful to
verify at run-time various assumptions that have been taken program
optimization.
Polyhedral AST generation is more than scanning polyhedra
Tobias Grosser, Sven Verdoolaege, Albert Cohen
ACM Transations on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), 37(4), July 2015
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Use the content of the Polly wiki page[1] to create a new website. I do not yet
plan to officially promote this website, but it is already a solid base that we
can improve and peer review.
[1] http://wiki.llvm.org/Polly
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