Name: Modern compiler design
ISBN: 9780471976974

Modern compiler design

While focusing on the essential techniques common to all language paradigms, this book provides readers with the skills required for modern compiler construction. All the major programming types (imperative, object-oriented, functional, logic, and distributed) are covered. Practical emphasis is placed on implementation and optimization techniques, which includes tools for automating compiler design.

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sargstuffAug 2022

Older editions have solutions to the exercises in book available on line (via search engine such as google)

### Some of the following assume an advanced backround:

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs , Abelson & Sussman &

Engineering a compiler, K.D. Cooper & L. Torczon

Modern Compiler Design (Worldwide Series in Computer Science),

Build Your Own Programming Language: A programmer's guide to designing compilers, interpreters, and DSLs for solving modern computing problems, C Jeffery

### Alternate suggestions:

Aho et al. book covers quite a broad variety of topics/discussions. There are resources that cover more current approaches / more indepth for a given topic/specific subject matter than would be possible in Aho et.

Depending on requirements/needs, on-line resources/courses/topics can provide access to more modern/quicker feedback:

search compiler on https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/

software perspectiv, https://program-transformation.org/

research intensive, look at specific book/documentation on how a language is/was implimented, aka cpython, java, compiling lisp, smalltalk-80, forth

General resource sites (per looking for something less expensive): https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers / https://bernsteinbear.com/pl-resources/

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andersyrOct 2019

If anyone is curious about an updated resource, I've found Modern Compiler Design much more approachable than the Dragon Book: Published in 2012, it includes chapters on designing object-oriented, functional, and logical compilers.

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781461446989

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DearVoltJan 2017

Wow, that's awesome! I picked up mine second hand at a textbook distributor for the equivalent of about $30.

For anyone interested in other books on compiler construction, I would recommend these:

- "The Basics of Compiler Design" by Torben Mogensen

- "Modern Compiler Implementation in C" by Andrew Appel (ML and Java versions available too)

- "Modern Compiler Design" by Grune, Bal et al.

The Dragon Book is obviously infamous for this topic, but I would recommend covering at least two slightly more basic texts before taking it on.

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Ace17Dec 2015

For the actual implementation of a compiler (not design of the language itself), I'd recommend "Modern Compiler Design" by Dick Grune. A lot more practical and readable than the Dragon Book.

About the language design itself, you might want to have a look to: http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/so-you-want-t... These are very interesting guidelines from Walter Bright, the man behind the D programming language.

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sklogicDec 2015

Not sure if there are any books around LLVM or gcc, but there is a lot of up to date texts.

Grune at al., "Modern Compiler Design",

Appel, "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML",

and many more.

P.S. Because of a slow-ban, adding another one to this answer. This is the best source on SSA:

http://www.cri.ensmp.fr/people/pop/papers/2006-12-thesis.pdf

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Ace17Dec 2015

Dick Grune - Modern Compiler Design

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