Blackjack project is part of AACE (Architecture-Aware Compiler Enviroment), which develops metrics for evaluating future compilers. The evaluation is performed by using representative applications and implementing revelant micro-benchmarks, as well as testing and analyzing the productivity, correctness, and performance of multiple AACE prototype systems. The main two goals are:

1. to ensure the compiler technology developed by the AACE Program will automatically select the appropriate optimizations based on a learned characterization of the target system; and
2. to ensure the compiler technology has a dynamic runtime environment that can dynamically improve the performance of a program during runtime and/or provide information that can be used by the compiler to optimize for future runs of the program.