It's MAJIC!
MAJIC (an acronym for MATLAB Just-In-time
Compiler) is a joint effort between Cornell
University and the University of
Illinois to study and develop new compiler technology for the MATLAB programming
language. MAJIC is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant
No. 1-5-31615 NSF ACI98-70687. Our work is continuation of FALCON project
at Illinois.
MAJIC Compiler Technology
Why another MATLAB compiler? because the FALCON project
convinced us that there are compiler
optimizations that can make MATLAB code run faster than what
current tools are providing. But we didn't want to stop and compile
(by hand) every procedure we wanted to execute. So we tried to see
whether we could reproduce FALCON's performance and speedups with a just-in-time compiler.
Our Benchmarks
The MATLAB code we used for testing comes from various sources, but
mainly from John H. Mathews'
book, "NUMERICAL METHODS for Mathematics". The original set of 12
benchmarks was mainly used by the FALCON project and still contains
many props/crutches to make it work with FALCON and with MAJIC. Visit
the download page to get them.
People, Publications and Links
The project is headed by Keshav
Pingali at Cornell, David Padua at Illinois,
and Luiz
De Rose from IBM. The legwork is done by the graduate
students, Vijay
Menon and George
Almási. For our publications related to MAJIC, and for
links referring to other similar projects, check out this page.
Permanently under construction.
Vijay Menon
George
Almási
Last modified: Feb. 2. 2000.