Dynamic compilation for energy adaptation

  • Authors:
  • P. Unnikrishnan;G. Chen;M. Kandemir;D. R. Mudgett

  • Affiliations:
  • The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA;The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA;The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA;The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

While previous compiler research indicates that significant improvements in energy efficiency may be possible if properly optimized code is used, the energy constraints under which a given application code should be optimized may not always be available at compile-time. More importantly, these constraints may change dynamically during the course of execution. In this work, we present a dynamic recompilation/linking framework using which the energy behavior of a given application can be optimized while the application is being executed. Our preliminary experiments indicate that large energy gains are possible through dynamic code recompilation/linking at the expense of a relatively small increase in execution time.