CGO-2009 Call For Papers

March 22-25, 2009  –  Seattle, Washington

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society TC-uARCH   and ACM SIGMICRO  in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN

The International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) provides a premier venue to bring together researchers and practitioners working on feedback-directed optimization and back-end compilation techniques. The conference covers optimization for parallelism, performance, power, and security, where that optimization occurs in the mapping from an input (including APIs, high-level languages, byte codes such as .NET or Java, or ISAs) to a similar or lower-level target machine representation.

Papers are solicited in areas that support such mapping and optimization:

• Compilers, back-end code generators, translators, binary optimization tools and runtime environments; static, dynamic, adaptive, or continuous techniques
• Innovative analysis, transformation, and optimization techniques
• Memory management, including data distribution, synchronization and GC
• Thread extraction and thread-level speculation, especially for multi-core systems
• Vertical integration of language features, representations, optimizations, and runtime support for parallelism (including support for transactional semantics, efficient message passing, and dynamic thread creation)
• Phase detection and analysis techniques
• Mechanisms and optimization techniques supporting the efficient implementation of security protection models, reliability and energy efficiency
• Traditional compiler optimizations
• Intermediate representations that enable more powerful or efficient optimization
• Hardware mechanisms and systems that implement or assist in any of the above
• Experiences with real dynamic optimization and compilation systems, particularly with large, complex applications
• Explorations of trade-offs concerning when (static/dynamic) and where (software/hardware) to optimize
• Particularly novel ideas of interest to this community