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Comparative Cross-Platform Performance Results from a Parallelizing SML Compiler

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We have developed a parallelising compiler for Standard ML which allows instantiation of a fixed set of higher order functions with equivalent parallel algorithmic skeletons. The compiler is intended to be both portable and semi-automatic. Here we discuss the performance of the code generated by the compiler, for five exemplar programs on four MIMD parallel machines. Results show consistent cross-platform behaviour and good relative speedup for small numbers of processors but with limited scalability to larger numbers of processors.

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  1. Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, 1/8 Asahidai, 923-1211, Tatsunokuchi, Nomigun, Ishikawa

    Norman Scaife & Susumu Horiguchi

  2. Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Greg Michaelson

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  1. Computer Science Laboratory, Ericsson, P.O. Box 1505, 125 25, Älvsjö, Sweden

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  2. Lehrstuhl für Informatik II, RWTH Aachen, Ahornstr. 55, 52056, Aachen, Germany

    Markus Mohnen

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Scaife, N., Michaelson, G., Horiguchi, S. (2002). Comparative Cross-Platform Performance Results from a Parallelizing SML Compiler. In: Arts, T., Mohnen, M. (eds) Implementation of Functional Languages. IFL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2312. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46028-4_9

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