DiscoPoP Version 4.0.1

Features

• Simplified setup via installable Debian packages

Fixes

• Stability fixes in build scripts
• Compatibility fixes with Ubuntu 24.04 and Linux Mint 22

DiscoPoP Version 4.0.0

Features

• Various bugfixes and stability improvements

Experimental features

• Empirical auto tuner for parallelization suggestions
• Option to append CallTree information to the identified data dependencies during dynamic profiling

Code

• Major refactoring to simplify maintenance, development, and interoperability

DiscoPoP Version 3.2.1

Features

• added new configuration options for CMake build
• minor bugfixes and stability improvements

DiscoPoP Version 3.2.0

Features

• Various minor bug fixes
• Improved dependency profiling w.r.t. stack variables and scoping

DiscoPoP Version 3.1.1

Fixes:

• structure of the generated patterns fixed for interoperability with the Visual Studio Code Extension

DiscoPoP Version 3.1.0

Features

• Added compile time configuration options for the DiscoPoP profiler

Improvements

• Several compute-intensive analysis steps parallelized
• Scaling behavior and memory footprint of several analysis steps improved
• Stability improvements
• Reworked wiki
• Setup and execution simplified

Fixes

• Improved synchronization targeted towards multiprocessing

Experimental features

• DiscoPoP optimizer (module for automatic selection, device mapping, improvement and combination of beneficial parallelization suggestions) and interoperability with other framework components improved

Version 3.0.0

Features

• automatic generation of file-mapping during static analysis
• updated output folder structure
• added PThread compatibility mode for the profiler
• added utilities for patch generation from identified suggestions and their application
• interoperability with the Hotspot-Detection module
• interoperability with the DiscoPoP Visual Studio Code Extension

Version 2.3.0

Performance:

• naive parallelization of pattern detection

Pattern detection:

• improved accuracy using an extended shadow memory

Interfaces:

• added wrapper scripts around clang and clang++ for easy integration of the static and dynamic analysis into build systems (e.g. CMake)

Code:

• improved CI, style checks and pre-commit hooks
• improved type-checking
• end-to-end tests added
• minor cleanup, formatting and refactoring

Experimental features:

• performance modeler for CPU multithreading
• suggestion of loop scheduling clauses
• integration of Microbenchmark results and ExtraP model generation

Version 2.2.0

Features

• Improved GUI
• Added library functions (basic code generator, utilities to handle file mappings)
• Added profiling of memory allocations for improved suggestion accuracy

Fixes

• Stability improvements
• Fixes to pattern detection and variable classification
• Performance improvements

DiscoPoP Version 2.1.1

Fixes

• Fixed creation of unclosed file streams
• Fixed GUI Problems with dual monitors
• Added missing check for dependency during build