ROSETTA: The Compile-Time Recognition Of Object-Oriented Library Abstractions And Their Use Within Applications

摘要

Object-oriented libraries arise naturally from the increasing complexity of developing related scientific applications. The optimization of the use of libraries within scientific applications is one of many high-performance optimizations, and is the subject of this paper. This type of optimization can have significant potential because it can either reduce the overhead of calls to a library, specialize the library calls given the context of their use within the application, or use the semantics of the library calls to locally rewrite sections of the application. This type of optimization is only now becoming an active area of research. The optimization of the use of libraries within scientific applications is particularly attractive because it maps to the extensive use of libraries within numerous large existing scientific applications sharing common problem domains. This paper presents an object-oriented library, ROSETTA, as a mechanism to determine where within an application a source-to-source preprocessor can introduce performance optimizations.