Benchmarking FALCON's MATLAB-to-Fortran 90 Compiler on an SG I Power Challenge
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This paper presents an overview ofthe FALCON MATLAB-to-Fortran 90 compiler. FA~CON is a programming environment for the development of high-performance scientific programa. It combines static and dynamic inference methods to translate MATLAB programa into Fortran 90. The statit inference is supported with advanced value propagation techniques and symbolic algorithms for subscript analysis. The experimenta presented in this paper show that FALCON's MATLAB compiler can generate code that performs more than 1000 times faster than the interpreted version ofMATLAB and substantially faster than a commercially-available MATLAB compiler on one processo r o f an SGI Power Challenge. Furthermore, for mosto f the programs we have tested, the compiler-generated codes are as fast as the corresponding hand-written programa.
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