Program Specialization

Download or read book Program Specialization written by Renaud Marlet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the principles and techniques of program specialization — a general method to make programs faster (and possibly smaller) when some inputs can be known in advance. As an illustration, it describes the architecture of Tempo, an offline program specializer for C that can also specialize code at runtime, and provides figures for concrete applications in various domains. Technical details address issues related to program analysis precision, value reification, incomplete program specialization, strategies to exploit specialized program, incremental specialization, and data specialization. The book, that targets both researchers and software engineers, also opens scientific and industrial perspectives.