Goals of Application Development Support

• Applications should

  • be easy to develop
  • be portable
  • achieve high performance
    • as close to what is possible by hand

• Application Developer

  • should be able to concentrate on problem analysis and decomposition

• System

  • should handle details of mapping abstract decomposition onto computing configuration

• Developer and System

  • should work together to debug and tune the program

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