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Eliminating Exception Constraints of Java Programs for IA-64

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Eliminating Exception Constraints of Java Programs for IA-64
Java exception checks are designed to ensure that any faulting instruction causing a hardware exception does not terminate the program abnormally. These checks, however, impose some constraints upon the execution order between an instruction potentially raising a Java exception and a faulting instruction causing a hardware exception. This reduces the effectiveness of instruction reordering optimization. We propose a new framework to effectively perform speculation for the Java language using a direct acyclic graph representation based on the SSA form. Using this framework, we apply a well-known speculation technique to a faulting load instruction to eliminate such constraints. We use edges to represent exception constraints. This allows us to accurately estimate the potential reduction of the critical path length for applying speculation. We also propose an approach to avoid extra copy instructions and to generate efficient code with minimum register pressure. We have implemented the ...
Kazuaki Ishizaki, Tatsushi Inagaki, Hideaki Komats
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Type Conference
Year 2002
Where IEEEPACT
Authors Kazuaki Ishizaki, Tatsushi Inagaki, Hideaki Komatsu, Toshio Nakatani
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