Gang Zhou and Man-Kit Leung and Edward A. Lee

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2007-29

February 23, 2007

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2007/EECS-2007-29.pdf

Embedded software requires alternative concurrency formalisms other than threads and mutexes used in traditional programming languages like C. Actor-oriented design presents a high level abstraction for composing concurrent components. However, high level abstraction often introduces overhead and results in slower system. We address the problem of generating efficient implementation for the systems with such a high level description. We use partial evaluation as an optimized compilation technique for actor-oriented models. We use a helper-based mechanism, which results in flexible and extensible code generation framework. The end result is that the benefit offered by high level abstraction comes with (almost) no performance penalty. The code generation framework has been released in open source form as part of Ptolemy II 6.0.1.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Zhou:EECS-2007-29,
    Author= {Zhou, Gang and Leung, Man-Kit and Lee, Edward A.},
    Title= {A Code Generation Framework for Actor-Oriented Models with Partial Evaluation},
    Year= {2007},
    Month= {Feb},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2007/EECS-2007-29.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2007-29},
    Note= {See the <a href="http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/publications/papers/07/codegen/"> published version</a>},
    Abstract= {Embedded software requires alternative concurrency formalisms other than threads and mutexes used in traditional programming languages like C. Actor-oriented design presents a high level abstraction for composing concurrent components. However, high level abstraction often introduces overhead and results in slower system. We address the problem of generating efficient implementation for the systems with such a high level description. We use partial evaluation as an optimized compilation technique for actor-oriented models. We use a helper-based mechanism, which results in flexible and extensible code generation framework. The end result is that the benefit offered by high level abstraction comes with (almost) no performance penalty. The code generation framework has been released  in open source form as part of Ptolemy II 6.0.1.},
}

EndNote citation:

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%A Leung, Man-Kit 
%A Lee, Edward A. 
%T A Code Generation Framework for Actor-Oriented Models with Partial Evaluation
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2007
%8 February 23
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