Message from the Program Chair

Together with the program committee, it is my great pleasure to present this program for the 2009 Seventh International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization – CGO ‘09. This year’s symposium continues its tradition of being a premier forum to bring together researchers and practitioners working on feedback-directed optimization and back-end compilation techniques. This year’s program includes a collection of 26 papers spanning a broad range of issues, reflecting the growing importance of code generation and optimization in this era of fundamental shifts in computer architecture. Beyond the typical areas for CGO of profile-directed optimization, dynamic optimization and program analysis, this year’s program includes sessions on analysis for concurrency, optimizations for stream programs, using intelligence in optimization, and programmer tools. We are pleased to include papers that consider optimizations for emerging architectures or provide insights on production systems. In addition to the papers, we are very fortunate to include two keynote talks from Joel Emer on the future of reconfigurable computing in mainstream architectures and Vikram Adve on the future of compiler research.