A Tool To Support Fastflow Program Design

We describe the implementation of ff-RPL, a shell to support structured parallel programming development in FastFlow. The shell provides ways to explore the space of functionally equivalent, alternative parallel implementations of the same application with different non functional properties. The tool is entirely written in C++ and has been designed in such a way it can be easily extended to take into account new non functional features, refactoring and optimization rules, as well as different parallel patterns. Preliminary experimental results are shown relatively to the code generation part.

本文详述了ff-RPL的实现方案，该工具是一款用于支撑FastFlow框架下结构化并行编程开发的外壳程序。该工具提供了探索同一应用程序的多组功能等价、可替代并行实现方案空间的途径，这些方案具备各异的非功能属性。该工具完全采用C++语言编写，其设计架构具备良好的可扩展性，可适配新增的非功能特性、重构与优化规则，以及不同的并行编程模式。本文还展示了针对代码生成模块的初步实验结果。