Abstract
Thread-level speculation (TLS) has historically been investigated in the context of novel hardware designs Chen and Olukotun, 2003, Steffan et al., 2005 Quiñones et al., 2005. Pure software designs to TLS, however, have relatively recently become of interest, trading increased overhead concerns for the potential of providing new and user-friendly approaches to extracting parallelism, and making use of commodity multiprocessors without the need for new hardware Pickett and Verbrugge, 2005, Oancea and Mycroft, 2008. Investigation of such approaches, however, tends to be hampered by the need for such systems to build on specific language or execution contexts with implicit source-level requirements, and lack of integration with a realistic compiler infrastructure.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Chen, M.K., Olukotun, K.: The Jrpm system for dynamically parallelizing Java programs. In: ISCA 2003: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, pp. 434–446 (2003)
Oancea, C.E., Mycroft, A.: Software thread-level speculation: an optimistic library implementation. In: IWMSE 2008: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multicore Software Engineering, pp. 23–32 (2008)
Pickett, C.J., Verbrugge, C.: SableSpMT: a software framework for analysing speculative multithreading in Java. In: PASTE 2005: ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE 2005) (2005)
Quiñones, C.G., Madriles, C., Sánchez, J., Marcuello, P., González, A., Tullsen, D.M.: Mitosis compiler: an infrastructure for speculative threading based on pre-computation slices. In: PLDI 2005: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, pp. 269–279 (2005)
Steffan, J.G., Colohan, C., Zhai, A., Mowry, T.C.: The STAMPede approach to thread-level speculation. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) 23(3), 253–300 (2005)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Cao, Z., Verbrugge, C. (2013). Language and Architecture Independent Software Thread-Level Speculation. In: Kasahara, H., Kimura, K. (eds) Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. LCPC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7760. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37658-0_21
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37658-0_21
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-37657-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-37658-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)