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Franz Franchetti, Yevgen Voronenko and Markus Püschel (Proc. High Performance Computing for Computational Science (VECPAR), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Vol. 4395, pp. 363-377, 2006)
A Rewriting System for the Vectorization of Signal Transforms
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We present a rewriting system that automatically vectorizes signal transform algorithms at a high level of abstraction. The input to the system is a transform algorithm given as a formula in the well-known Kronecker product formalism. The output is a "vectorized" formula, which means it consists exclusively of constructs that can be directly mapped into short vector code. This approach obviates compiler vectorization, which is known to be limited in this domain. We included the formula vectorization into the Spiral program generator for signal transforms, which enables us to generate vectorized code and optimize through search over alternative algorithms. Benchmarks for the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) show that our generated floating-point code is competitive with and that our fixed-point code clearly outperforms the best available libraries.
Keywords: Learn the current Spiral system, SIMD vectorization, SPIRAL program generation system for transformsMore information: