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Using AI With GCC to Speed Up Mobile Design

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the leave-it-to-the-machines dept.

Atlasite writes "The WSJ is reporting on a EU project called Milepost aimed at integrating AI inside GCC. The team partners, which include include IBM, the University of Edinburgh and the French research institute, INRIA, announced their preliminary results at the recent GCC Summit, being able to increase the performance of GCC by 10% in just one month's work. GCC Summit paper is provided [PDF]."

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  1. Calling this AI is overhype... and its not new by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 5, Informative
    The authors of the paper don't call it AI.

    This is not really AI. Basically it is iteratively trying a bunch of compiler options to see which gives the best result, then storing those for the future.

    Greenhills software has provided tools that do this, and more, for many years now. Drop some code, or your project, into the optimizer, setting what critera you want to optimise for (speed, size,...) and the optimiser will successively build and test the project on a simulator and find the best configuration. This is great form embedded systems where there is often a trade off and typical criteria would be (give me the fastest code that fits in the flash).

    Genetic algorithms could take this a step further and very interesting work has been done to get GA to design antennas.

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