Comparing Rapid Type Analysis with Points-To Analysis in GraalVM Native Image

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26230%2F23%3APU150578" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26230/23:PU150578 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3617651.3622980" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3617651.3622980</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3617651.3622980" target="_blank" >10.1145/3617651.3622980</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Comparing Rapid Type Analysis with Points-To Analysis in GraalVM Native Image

Original language description

Whole-program analysis is an essential technique that enables advanced compiler optimizations. An important example of such a method is points-to analysis used by ahead-of-time (AOT) compilers to discover program elements (classes, methods, fields) used on at least one program path. GraalVM Native Image uses a points-to analysis to optimize Java applications, which is a time-consuming step of the build. We explore how much the analysis time can be improved by replacing the points-to analysis with a rapid type analysis (RTA), which computes reachable elements faster by allowing more imprecision. We propose several extensions of previous approaches to RTA: making it parallel, incremental, and supporting heap snapshotting. We present an extensive experimental evaluation of the effects of using RTA instead of points-to analysis, in which RTA allowed us to reduce the analysis time for Spring Petclinic (a popular demo application of the Spring framework) by 64% and the overall build time by 35% at the cost of increasing the image size due to the imprecision by 15%.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA23-06506S" target="_blank" >GA23-06506S: Advanced Analysis and Verification for Advanced Software</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes

ISBN

979-8-4007-0380-5

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

129-142

Publisher name

Association for Computing Machinery

Place of publication

New York

Event location

Cascais

Event date

Oct 22, 2023

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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