Appeal No. 1999-0004
Application 08/593,309
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and
apparatus for improving the execution performance of a
compiler within a computer system. More particularly, the
compiler of the present invention receives block alignment
information from an input source which is external to both the
source code file and the compiler itself. The block alignment
information is used to create blocks of instructions which
will improve the performance of cache memory.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A computer system, said system comprising:
a bus;
a central processing unit;
computer system memory, said computer system memory
being connected to said central processing unit via said bus;
and
a compiler program stored in said computer system
memory for execution on said central processing unit, said
compiler program including:
a code generator that converts a source code file into
an object file, wherein said object file includes a plurality
of basic blocks;
a block alignment information input mechanism that
inputs block alignment information from a source external to
both said source code file and said compiler; and
a block alignment processing mechanism that processes
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