A framework for remote dynamic program optimization
DYNAMO '00 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Dynamic and adaptive compilation and optimization
FX!32: A Profile-Directed Binary Translator
IEEE Micro
E2K Technology and Implementation
Euro-Par '00 Proceedings from the 6th International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing
Proceedings of the international symposium on Code generation and optimization: feedback-directed and runtime optimization
Proceedings of the 36th annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
An Event-Driven Multithreaded Dynamic Optimization Framework
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
Reducing dynamic compilation overhead by overlapping compilation and execution
ASP-DAC '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
Dynamic compilation: the benefits of early investing
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Virtual execution environments
Multithreaded Optimizing Technique for Dynamic Binary Translator CrossBit
CSSE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering - Volume 05
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Binary translation and dynamic optimization are widely used to provide compatibility between legacy and promising upcoming architectures on the level of executable binary codes. Dynamic optimization is one of the key contributors to dynamic binary translation system performance. At the same time it can be a major source of overhead, both in terms of CPU cycles and whole system latency, as long as optimization time is included in the execution time of the application under translation. One of the solutions that allow to eliminate dynamic optimization overhead is to perform optimization simultaneously with the execution, in a separate thread. In the paper we present implementation of this technique in full system dynamic binary translator. For this purpose, an infrastructure for multithreaded execution was implemented in binary translation system. This allowed running dynamic optimization in a separate thread independently of and concurrently with the main thread of execution of binary codes under translation. Depending on the computational resources available, this is achieved whether by interleaving the two threads on a single processor core or by moving optimization thread to an underutilized processor core. In the first case the latency introduced to the system by a computational intensive dynamic optimization is reduced. In the second case overlapping of execution and optimization threads also results in elimination of optimization time from the total execution time of original binary codes.