Generating Compiler Optimizations from Proofs

Veröffentlicht am: 15 Dezember 2021
auf dem Kanal: Ross Tate

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Authors: Ross Tate, Michael Stepp, and Sorin Lerner
Presented at POPL 2010

We present an automated technique for generating compiler optimizations from examples of concrete programs before and after improvements have been made to them. The key technical insight of our technique is that a proof of equivalence between the original and transformed concrete programs informs us which aspects of the programs are important and which can be discarded. Our technique therefore uses these proofs, which can be produced by translation validation or a proof-carrying compiler, as a guide to generalize the original and transformed programs into broadly applicable optimization rules.

We present a category-theoretic formalization of our proof generalization technique. This abstraction makes our technique applicable to logics besides our own. In particular, we demonstrate how our technique can also be used to learn query optimizations for relational databases or to aid programmers in debugging type errors.

Finally, we show experimentally that our technique enables programmers to train a compiler with application-specific optimizations by providing concrete examples of original programs and the desired transformed programs. We also show how it enables a compiler to learn efficient-to-run optimizations from expensive-to-run super-optimizers.

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