Fast, optimized Sun RPC using automatic program specialization

Proceedings. 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (Cat. No.98CB36183) Pub Date : 1998-05-26 DOI:10.1109/ICDCS.1998.679507

Gilles Muller, R. Marlet, Eugen-Nicolae Volanschi, C. Consel, C. Pu, Ashvin Goel

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Fast remote procedure call (RPC) is a major concern for distributed systems. Many studies aimed at efficient RPC consist of either new implementations of the RPC paradigm or manual optimization of critical sections of the code. This paper presents an experiment that achieves automatic optimization of an existing, commercial RPC implementation, namely the Sun RPC. The optimized Sun RPC is obtained by using an automatic program specializer. It runs up to 1.5 times faster than the original Sun RPC. Close examination of the specialized code does not reveal further optimization opportunities which would lead to significant improvements without major manual restructuring. The contributions of this work are: the optimized code is safely produced by an automatic tool and thus does not entail any additional maintenance; to the best of our knowledge this is the first successful specialization of mature, commercial, representative system code; and the optimized Sun RPC runs significantly faster than the original code.

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使用自动程序专门化的快速、优化的Sun RPC

快速远程过程调用(RPC)是分布式系统的主要关注点。许多针对高效RPC的研究包括RPC范式的新实现或代码关键部分的手动优化。本文提出了一个实验，该实验实现了对现有的商业RPC实现(即Sun RPC)的自动优化。优化后的Sun RPC是通过使用自动程序专门化器获得的。它的运行速度比最初的Sun RPC快1.5倍。对专门化代码的仔细检查并不能揭示进一步的优化机会，而这些优化机会将在不进行重大手工重构的情况下带来重大改进。这项工作的贡献是:优化的代码是由自动工具安全生成的，因此不需要任何额外的维护;据我们所知，这是第一个成功的成熟的、商业化的、有代表性的系统代码专业化;优化后的Sun RPC运行速度明显快于原始代码。

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