AIDE: An Interactive Environment for Program Transformation and Parallelization

Program Transformation and Parallelization, with an intent of improving, the running time of the program, usually involves major restructuring, of the unoptimized or serial version of a given program. Evaluating the effectiveness of the transformations, and performing post-mortem checks, on the resulting program, is almost an impossible task, with out an environment, to correlate the source program, with the target program, and the various intermediate representations. For instance, our parallelizing compiler, uses several Intermediate Representations (IR), such as Three-Address instructions and several Graph based representations. To get a complete understanding, of the transformations carried out, it is necessary to visually and interactively tie, the various representations of the given program. Traditionally, Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), that combine the functionality of several toolkits, in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) framework, are provided in the Software Development Domain, to assist and improve programmer efficiency. We can adapt and apply these ideas, in the Program Transformation and Parallelization setting, to likewise aid the programmer. IDE in such an environment can help the user or programmer to Plan, Visualize, Execute, Analyze and Post-Process Program Transformation and Parallelization Tasks. However majority of the existing Program Transformation and Parallelization infrastructures, lack good visualization support or provide an incomplete environment. AIDE our solution to the visualization problem, is envisioned to fill this void by providing an IDE that is complete, convenient, efficient and productive.