CGO and MRE
Earlier this week I attended CGO (International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization) and MRE (Workshop on Managed Runtime Environments). There were two many presentations to cover them all. Here are just some highlights.
- There were two very interesting keynotes:
- Is Performance Research Done? By Amitabh Srivastava from Microsoft
An excellent overview of PPRC (Programmer Productivity Research Center) research projects.
- Evolving the Next Generation of Compilers by Keith Cooper from Rice.
To get you curious, I will say that the talk started with a premise that compilers are not slow enough, that is the compilers didn't get slower as quickly at the CPUs speed increased. Have a look at the slides if it sounds intriguing.
- All CGO papers are available online.
- Slides from talks at the MRE workshop are available online. There were a few interesting talks at the workshop including two from Microsoft: about the CLRProfiler and PreJIT (aka NGEN).
