QuaC: Binary Optimization for Fast Runtime Code Generation in C (Extended Abstract)

Curtis Yarvin and Adam Sah

EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-94-792
1994

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1994/CSD-94-792.pdf

Runtime Code Generation (RTCG) has considerable theoretical potential but has so far seen little use in practice. Adequate tools are lacking. We present QuaC, an RTCG system that lets C programmers specialize their functions at runtime with a simple, portable user interface. QuaC works by applying compiler optimization techniques to machine code in memory. It is fast and highly retargetable.


BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Yarvin:CSD-94-792,
    Author = {Yarvin, Curtis and Sah, Adam},
    Title = {QuaC: Binary Optimization for Fast Runtime Code Generation in C (Extended Abstract)},
    Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year = {1994},
    URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1994/6310.html},
    Number = {UCB/CSD-94-792},
    Abstract = {Runtime Code Generation (RTCG) has considerable theoretical potential but has so far seen little use in practice. Adequate tools are lacking. We present QuaC, an RTCG system that lets C programmers specialize their functions at runtime with a simple, portable user interface. QuaC works by applying compiler optimization techniques to machine code in memory. It is fast and highly retargetable.}
}

EndNote citation:

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