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Runtime, speculative on-stack parallelization of for-loops in binary programs

Yusuf et al., 2018

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8556373792067745508
Author
Yusuf M
El-Mahdy A
Rohou E
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IEEE Letters of the Computer Society

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Nowadays almost every device has parallel architecture, hence parallelization is almost always desirable. However, parallelizing legacy running programs is very challenging. That is due to the fact that usually source code is not available, and runtime parallelization …
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