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Method for optimizing software for any one of a plurality of variant architectures
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In this paper, the authors propose a method to implement software for a wide variety of variant host architectures, without excessive usage of host memory, by providing an initialization module of the software to host memory.Abstract:
A method allows a designer to implement software for a wide variety of variant host architectures, without excessive usage of host memory (52). The method is based on providing an initialization module of the software to host memory (52). A portion of the initialization module determines the host architecture. The unneeded portions of the initialization module are freed, and needed portions are relocated into a contiguous memory space to minimize host memory usage. Any location dependent entries in the needed portions of the program are then updated based on the relocation. The initialization module includes a plurality of code blocks, (16, 18, 20, 22), each of which is optimized to a particular variant architecture. When the variant architecture of the host is identified, those code blocks which are optimized to the identified host are selected and the other code blocks are freed. The selected blocks are then relocated to optimize host usage.read more
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