A Three-Stage Genetic Algorithm for Compiler Flag and Library Version Selection to Minimize Execution Time

Existing research in compiler autotuning mainly focuses on selecting optimization flags without configurable values. However, the potential of selecting optimization flags with configurable values, alongside using directory and link flags for library version selection to improve performance, remains largely unexplored. We propose a three-stage Genetic Algorithm (GA) that incrementally selects optimization flags without configurable values, then optimization flags with configurable values, and finally library versions, to minimize software execution time. We also discuss the implementation challenges of the proposed algorithm and outline potential future work.