Hi Tim,
> Do you know of any works where profiling information/ static program
> analysis is used as a heuristic to control code selection, i.e. the
> (profiling) execution counts of particular code structures are
> influencing the choice of instructions used to translate the source
> code into assembler?
>
This may be a little off-topic, but in this paper a technique is used
that uses profiling based basic block execution counts to guide the
generation of new instructions for extensible processor cores that
allow you to define your own application-specific instruction set
extensions:
Richard Bennett, Alastair Murray, Bjvrn Franke, and Nigel Topham.
Combining Source-to-Source Transformations and Processor Instruction Set
Extension for the Automated Design-Space Exploration of Embedded Systems.
Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED 2007 Conference on Languages
Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES 07), June 2007, San
Diego, USA.
Cheers,
Bjoern
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