US Patent Issued to NEC on June 23 for "Compiling device and method for performance speed-up of a program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,972, issued on June 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Compiling device and method for performance speed-up of a program" was invented by Kento Iwakawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a compiling device, a compiling method, and a compiling program with which the speed of a program can be increased when a loop in a program includes an access to adjacent data. The compiling device includes: a loop analysis unit for determining whether vectorization of a loop in a source program is possible when an access to adjacent data is included in the loop; and a vectorization execution unit for generating an instruction fo...