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Method and apparatus for integrated instruction scheduling and register allocation in a postoptimizer

US7007271B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 18, 2002
Grant dateFeb 28, 2006
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Expiry dateMar 6, 2024

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F8/4441
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention describes a method of efficiently optimizing instruction scheduling and register allocation in a post optimizer. The method removes false register dependencies between pipelined instructions by building an incremental (partial) interference graph of register allocation for scheduled instructions. False dependency graph indicates the amount of parallelism in the data flow graph. The incremental interference graph uses a mix of virtual and physical registers. The interference graph is built incrementally as an instruction schedular schedules each instruction. The optimization is done incrementally on localized code. The physical register mapping is maximized and virtual registers are created on demand basis.

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