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* Loop interchange -- are we striding through nested loops optimally? If not, we can interchange levels, provided all dependencies are preserved. Especially powerful when combined with hardware- or software-based prefetching and further augmented with non-blocking caches. Optimal interpositioning is NP-hard in general but excellent heuristics exist. See Allen/Kennedy p. 472-474.
* Loop interchange -- are we striding through nested loops optimally? If not, we can interchange levels, provided all dependencies are preserved. Especially powerful when combined with hardware- or software-based prefetching and further augmented with non-blocking caches. Optimal interpositioning is NP-hard in general but excellent heuristics exist. See Allen/Kennedy p. 472-474.
** This can be valuable enough that we perform small transformations to accommodate it: loop alignment, loop peeling, etc
** This can be valuable enough that we perform small transformations to accommodate it: loop alignment, loop peeling, etc
* Loop blocking/tiling/strip-mining -- breaking out subloops to work on a cache-friendly block at once, good for parallelizing
* Loop blocking/tiling/strip-mining -- breaking out subloops to work on a cache-friendly block at once
** Especially good for parallelizing across coherent processing elements with local, coherent caches -- coherency traffic is minimized


==See Also==
==See Also==
* [http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/10/computing_strongly_connected_c.php Computing Strongly Connected Subgraphs] from [http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath Good Math, Bad Math]
* [http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/10/computing_strongly_connected_c.php Computing Strongly Connected Subgraphs] from [http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath Good Math, Bad Math]
* The [http://llvm.org/ LLVM] Compiler Infrastructure Project at [http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/ UIUC]
* The [http://llvm.org/ LLVM] Compiler Infrastructure Project at [http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/ UIUC]