Heuristics for Thread-Level Speculation in Web Applications

Heuristics for Thread-Level Speculation in Web Applications

JavaScript is a sequential programming language, and Thread-Level Speculation has been proposed to dynamically extract parallelism in order to take advantage of parallel hardware. In previous work, we have showed significant speed-ups with a simple on/off speculation heuristic. In this paper, we pro...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE computer architecture letters 2014-07, Vol.13 (2), p.77-80
Hauptverfasser: Martinsen, Jan Kasper, Grahn, Hakan, Isberg, Anders
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Automatic Parallelization
Benchmark testing
C.1.4 Parallel Architectures
C.1.4.f Speculative multi-threading
Instruction sets
Java
JavaScript
Multicore processors
Multithreading
Parallel Computing
Parallel processing
Social network services
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Zusammenfassung:JavaScript is a sequential programming language, and Thread-Level Speculation has been proposed to dynamically extract parallelism in order to take advantage of parallel hardware. In previous work, we have showed significant speed-ups with a simple on/off speculation heuristic. In this paper, we propose and evaluate three heuristics for dynamically adapt the speculation: a 2-bit heuristic, an exponential heuristic, and a combination of these two. Our results show that the combined heuristic is able to both increase the number of successful speculations and decrease the execution time for 15 popular web applications.
ISSN:1556-6056
1556-6064
DOI:10.1109/L-CA.2013.26