A Matlab Just-In-time Compiler

  • Authors:
  • George Almasi;David A. Padua; MaJIC

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • LCPC '00 Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing-Revised Papers
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper describes our experience with MaJIC, a just-intime compiler for MATLAB. In the recent past, several compiler projects claimed large performance improvements when processing MATLAB code. Most of these projects are static compilers suited for batch processing; MaJIC is a just-in-time compiler. The compilation process is transparent to the user. This impacts the modus operandi of the compiler, resulting in a few interesting analysis techniques. Our experiments with MaJIC indicate large speedups when compared to the interpreter, and reasonable performance when compared to static compilers.