Designing and compiling functional Java for the Fresh Breeze architecture
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Jacobs, William J., M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Jack Dennis.
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The Fresh Breeze architecture is a novel approach to computing that aims to support a high degree of parallelism. Rather than striving for heroic complexity in order to support exceptional single-thread performance, as in the Pentium and PowerPC processors, it focuses on using a medium level of complexity with a view to enabling exceptional parallelized performance. The design makes certain sacrifices with regard to capability in order to achieve a lower degree of complexity. These design choices have significant implications for compiling for the architecture. In particular, Fresh Breeze uses immutable, fixed-size memory chunks rather than sequential, mutable memory to store data [1][2][3]. This work demonstrates Functional Java, a subset of the Java language that one can compile to Fresh Breeze machine code with relative ease, overcoming challenges pertaining to aliased arrays and objects. It also describes work on a compiler designed for the Fresh Breeze architecture and how the work overcomes various challenges in compiling Java bytecode to data flow graphs.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 80).
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2009Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencePublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.