Design and Use of Loop-Transformation Pragmas

10/06/2019
by   Michael Kruse, et al.
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Adding a pragma directive into the source code is arguably easier than rewriting it, for instance for loop unrolling. Moreover, if the application is maintained for multiple platforms, their difference in performance characteristics may require different code transformations. Code transformation directives allow replacing the directives depending on the platform, i.e. separation of code semantics and its performance optimization. In this paper, we explore the design space (syntax and semantics) of adding such directive into a future OpenMP specification. Using a prototype implementation in Clang, we demonstrate the usefulness of such directives on a few benchmarks.

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