Code generations, evaluations, and optimizations in multithreaded executions
Lucas Roh · 1996
Efficient large-scale parallel processing can result only from proper handling of latency. Latency arises either from remote memory accesses or synchronizations. Multithreading is an execution model that can effectively deal with latency by switching among a set of ready threads. This model has been proposed in a variety of forms: a unit of storage can be based on either a collection of threads or a single thread, threads can be either blocking or non-blocking, and synchronization can be either implicit or explicit. This dissertation describes research in the evaluation and optimization of various issues in multithreading. Issues of particular interest are the development of a multithreaded execution model to be used as a test-bed and a hybrid code generation scheme where threads are generated in a top-down manner and then optimized in a bottom-up fashion. Various forms of locality are also ide...