Compiling for concise code and ecient I/O

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Abstract

Large infrastructures of Internet companies, such as Facebook and Twitter, are composed of several layers of microservices. While this modularity provides scalability to the system, the I/O associated with each service request strongly impacts its performance. In this context, writing concise programs which execute I/O eciently is especially challenging. In this paper, we introduce Ÿauhau, a novel compile-time solution. Ÿauhau reduces the number of I/O calls through rewrites on a simple expression language. To execute I/O concurrently, it lowers the expression language to a dataow representation. Our approach can be used alongside an existing programming language, permitting the use of legacy code. We describe an implementation in the JVM and use it to evaluate our approach. Experiments show that Ÿauhau can signicantly improve I/O, both in terms of the number of I/O calls and concurrent execution. Ÿauhau outperforms state-of-the-art approaches with similar goals.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCC 2018 - Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Compiler Construction, Co-located with CGO 2018
EditorsJingling Xue, Christophe Dubach
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages104-115
Number of pages12
ISBN (electronic)9781450356442
Publication statusPublished - 24 Feb 2018
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

Title27th International Conference on Compiler Construction, CC 2018
Duration24 - 25 February 2018
CityVienna
CountryAustria

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-5007-445X/work/141545547

Keywords

Research priority areas of TU Dresden

Keywords

  • Concurrency, Dataow, I/O