University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

A Refactoring Approach to Parallelism

Dig, Danny

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RefactoringForParallelism.pdf

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/16547

Description

Title
A Refactoring Approach to Parallelism
Author(s)
Dig, Danny
Issue Date
2010-07-01
Keyword(s)
  • refactoring
  • concurrency
  • parallelism
Date of Ingest
2010-07-06T21:54:19Z
Abstract
In the multicore era, a major programming task will be to make programs more parallel. This is tedious because it requires changing many lines of code, and it is error-prone and non-trivial because programmers need to ensure non-interference of parallel operations. Fortunately, refactoring tools can help reduce the analysis and transformation burden. We present our vision on how refactoring tools can improve programmer productivity, program performance, and program portability. We also present the current incarnation of this vision: a toolset that supports several refactorings for (i) making programs thread-safe, (ii) threading sequential programs for throughput, and (iii) improving scalability of parallel programs.
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
  • Technical Report
  • Article
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/16547
Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
Microsoft/Intel through UPCRC Illinois

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Research and Tech Reports - Computer Science PRIMARY