Runtime Code Generation

Papers

• A Case for Runtime Code Generation. Self-Modifying Code considered harmless.
• A Portable Interface for On-The-Fly Instruction Space Modification. A uniform interface to update the instruction cache ASAP when changing the instruction space of a running program.
• Evaluating Runtime-Compiled Value-Specific Optimizations. Dynamically optimizing around the values of variables can make even highly-tuned programs run faster.
• Faster Dynamic Linking for SPARC V8 and System V.4. How to make dynamic linking faster, and how to do relinking.
• Fast Data Breakpoints. Yet another way to implement data breakpoints in a debugger. Uses RTCG.
• Shade: A Fast Instruction-Set Simulator for Execution Profiling. A fast extensible cross-machine simulator that collects all sorts of tracing information. It's implemented using RTCG.

Projects

• The Cecil language project. Cecil is a strongly-typed language that mostly uses static compilation, but particular cases use an RTCG implementation.
• The UW Dynamic Compilation Project.
• The Spin RTCG-extensible OS kernel, and the Spin dynamic compiler in particular.