%0 Conference Paper %1 Thies:2002:SLS %A Thies, William %A Karczmarek, Michal %A Amarasinghe, Saman P. %B Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Compiler Construction %C London, UK, UK %D 2002 %E Horspool, R. Nigel %I Springer-Verlag %K MIT StreamIt dataflow language programming %P 179--196 %R 10.1007/3-540-45937-5_14 %T StreamIt: A Language for Streaming Applications %X We characterize high-performance streaming applications as a new and distinct domain of programs that is becoming increasingly important. The StreamIt language provides novel high-level representations to improve programmer productivity and program robustness within the streaming domain. At the same time, the StreamIt compiler aims to improve the performance of streaming applications via stream-specific analyses and optimizations. In this paper, we motivate, describe and justify the language features of StreamIt, which include: a structured model of streams, a messaging system for control, a re-initialization mechanism, and a natural textual syntax. %@ 3-540-43369-4

@inproceedings{Thies:2002:SLS, abstract = {We characterize high-performance streaming applications as a new and distinct domain of programs that is becoming increasingly important. The StreamIt language provides novel high-level representations to improve programmer productivity and program robustness within the streaming domain. At the same time, the StreamIt compiler aims to improve the performance of streaming applications via stream-specific analyses and optimizations. In this paper, we motivate, describe and justify the language features of StreamIt, which include: a structured model of streams, a messaging system for control, a re-initialization mechanism, and a natural textual syntax.}, acmid = {727935}, added-at = {2012-07-16T17:40:25.000+0200}, address = {London, UK, UK}, author = {Thies, William and Karczmarek, Michal and Amarasinghe, Saman P.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/214297da77241759b61a5804c80a2b27b/gron}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Compiler Construction}, description = {StreamIt}, doi = {10.1007/3-540-45937-5_14}, editor = {Horspool, R. Nigel}, interhash = {60eed8ea1ad659740a3f87e420842202}, intrahash = {14297da77241759b61a5804c80a2b27b}, isbn = {3-540-43369-4}, keywords = {MIT StreamIt dataflow language programming}, numpages = {18}, pages = {179--196}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, series = {CC'02}, timestamp = {2013-08-05T09:19:16.000+0200}, title = {StreamIt: A Language for Streaming Applications}, year = 2002 }