METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING ACCESS TO CONSTANT MEMORY

The disclosed systems, structures, and methods are directed to optimizing memory access to constants in heterogeneous parallel computers, including systems that support OpenCL. This is achieved in an optimizing compiler that transforms program scope constants and constants at the outermost scope of kernels into implicit constant pointer arguments. The optimizing compiler also attempts to determine access patterns for constants at compile-time and places the constants in a variety of memory types available in a compute device architecture based on these access patterns.