Accelerating program analyses by cross-program training
Abstract
Practical programs share large modules of code. However, many program analyses are ineffective at reusing analysis results for shared code across programs. We present POLYMER, an analysis optimizer to address this problem. POLYMER runs the analysis offline on a corpus of training programs and learns analysis facts over shared code. It prunes the learnt facts to eliminate intermediate computations and then reuses these pruned facts to accelerate the analysis of other programs that share code with the training corpus. We have implemented POLYMER to accelerate analyses specified in Datalog, and apply it to optimize two analyses for Java programs: a call-graph analysis that is flow- and context-insensitive, and a points-to analysis that is flow- and context-sensitive. We evaluate the resulting analyses on ten programs from the DaCapo suite that share the JDK library. POLYMER achieves average speedups of 2.6× for the call- graph analysis and 5.2× for the points-to analysis.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Oct 19, 2016
- Source ID
- 10.1145/3022671.2984023
Entities
People
- Mayur Naik
- Ravi Mangal
- Sulekha Kulkarni
- Xin Zhang
Organizations
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- National Science Foundation