Function Merging by Sequence Alignment
                        
                        
                            - Submitting institution
 
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                                The University of Manchester
                                
 
                            
 
                            - Unit of assessment
 
                            - 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
 
                            - Output identifier
 
                            - 158740631
 
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                            - E - Conference contribution
 
                                - DOI
 
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                                        10.1109/CGO.2019.8661174
                                
 
                                - Title of conference / published proceedings
 
                                - CGO 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization
 
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                            - Month of publication
 
                            - March
 
                            - Year of publication
 
                            - 2019
 
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                            - Output has been delayed by COVID-19
 
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                            - Forensic science
 
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                            - Interdisciplinary
 
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                            - Number of additional authors
 
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                                4
                            
 
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A - Computer Science
                             
                                - Citation count
 
                                - 3
 
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                            - Additional information
 
                            - "This paper introduced a bio-informatics inspired approach for significantly reducing program size by automatically identifying and merging similar functions into one.
Best paper award in CGO 2019, an IEEE/ACM conference with 31% acceptance rate (21/67).
Presented at the 2019 EuroLLVM Developers’ Meeting.
Enabled GBP10,000 technology transfer EU TETRAMAX grant in collaboration with Codasip, a company offering customised RISC-V designs.
A follow-up paper, ""Effective Function merging in the SSA form"", was published in PLDI 2020, a premier ACM SIGPLAN conference with 23% acceptance rate (77/341)."
 
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