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Flow Graph Theory
Depth-First Ordering
Efficiency of Iterative Algorithms
Reducible Flow Graphs
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Roadmap
�Proper ordering of nodes of a flow graph speeds up the iterative algorithms: “depth-first ordering.”
�“Normal” flow graphs have a surprising property --- “reducibility” --- that simplifies several matters.
�Outcome: few iterations “normally” needed.
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Depth-First Search
�Start at entry.
�If you can follow an edge to an unvisited node, do so.
�If not, backtrack to your parent (node from which you were visited).
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Depth-First Spanning Tree
�Root = entry.
�Tree edges are the edges along which we first visit the node at the head.
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Example: DFST
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Depth-First Node Order
�The reverse of the order in which a DFS retreats from the nodes.
�Alternatively, reverse of postorder traversal of the tree.
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Example: DF Order
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Four Kinds of Edges
1. Tree edges.
2. Forward edges (node to proper descendant).
3. Retreating edges (node to ancestor).
4. Cross edges (between two nodes, neither of which is an ancestor of the other.
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A Little Magic
�Of these edges, only retreating edges go from high to low in DF order.
�Most surprising: all cross edges go right to left in the DFST.
� Assuming we add children of any node from the left.
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Example: Non-Tree Edges
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Retreating
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Roadmap
�“Normal” flow graphs are “reducible.”
�“Dominators” needed to explain reducibility.
�In reducible flow graphs, loops are well defined, retreating edges are unique (and called “back” edges).
�Leads to relationship between DF order and efficient iterative algorithm.
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Dominators
� Node d dominates node n if every path from the entry to n goes through d.
� Text has a forward-intersection iterative algorithm for finding dominators.
� Quick observations:
1. Every node dominates itself.
2. The entry dominates every node.
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Example: Dominators
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Common Dominator Cases
�The test of a while loop dominates all blocks in the loop body.
�The test of an if-then-else dominates all blocks in either branch.
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Back Edges
�An edge is a back edge if its head dominates its tail.
�Theorem: Every back edge is a retreating edge in every DFST of every flow graph.
� Converse almost always true, but not always.
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Example: Back Edges
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Reducible Flow Graphs
�A flow graph is reducible if every retreating edge in any DFST for that flow graph is a back edge.
�Testing reducibility: Take any DFST for the flow graph, remove the back edges, and check that the result is acyclic.
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Example: Remove Back Edges
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Example: Remove Back Edges
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Remaining graph is acyclic.
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Why Reducibility?
�Folk theorem: All flow graphs in practice are reducible.
�Fact: If you use only while-loops, for-loops, repeat-loops, if-then(-else), break, and continue, then your flow graph is reducible.
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Example: Nonreducible Graph
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In any DFST, oneof these edges willbe a retreating edge.
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Why Care About Back/Retreating Edges?
1. Proper ordering of nodes during iterative algorithm assures number of passes limited by the number of “nested” back edges.
2. Depth of nested loops upper-bounds the number of nested back edges.
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DF Order and Retreating Edges
�Suppose that for a RD analysis, we visit nodes during each iteration in DF order.
�The fact that a definition d reaches a block will propagate in one pass along any increasing sequence of blocks.
�When d arrives along a retreating edge, it is too late to propagate d from OUT to IN.
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Example: DF Order
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Depth of a Flow Graph
�The depth of a flow graph is the greatest number of retreating edges along any acyclic path.
�For RD, if we use DF order to visit nodes, we converge in depth+2 passes.
� Depth+1 passes to follow that number of increasing segments.
� 1 more pass to realize we converged.
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Example: Depth = 2
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retreating
increasingincreasing
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Similarly . . .
�AE also works in depth+2 passes.
� Unavailability propagates along retreat-free node sequences in one pass.
�So does LV if we use reverse of DF order.
� A use propagates backward along paths that do not use a retreating edge in one pass.
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In General . . .
�The depth+2 bound works for any monotone framework, as long as information only needs to propagate along acyclic paths.
� Example: if a definition reaches a point, it does so along an acyclic path.
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Why Depth+2 is Good
�Normal control-flow constructs produce reducible flow graphs with the number of back edges at most the nesting depth of loops.
� Nesting depth tends to be small.
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Example: Nested Loops
3 nested while-loops; depth = 3.
3 nested repeat-loops; depth = 1
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Natural Loops
�The natural loop of a back edge a->bis {b} plus the set of nodes that can reach a without going through b.
�Theorem: two natural loops are either disjoint, identical, or nested.
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Example: Natural Loops
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Natural loopof 3 -> 2
Natural loopof 5 -> 1