Model, Design, and Evaluation of a Compiler for a Parallel Processing Environment

  • Authors:
  • J. -L. Baer;C. S. Ellis

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Washington;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

The problem of designing compilers for a multiprocessing environment is approached. We show that by modeling an existing sequential compiler, we gain an understanding of the modifications necessary to transform the sequential structure into a pipeline of processes. The pipelined compiler is then evaluated through measurements and simulation. Properties of the model, a generalized Petri Net, are also discussed.