Name: Advanced compiler design and implementation
ISBN: 9781558603202

Advanced compiler design and implementation

Computer professionals who need to understand advanced techniques for designing efficient compilers will need this book. It provides complete coverage of advanced issues in the design of compilers, with a major emphasis on creating highly optimizing scalar compilers. It includes interviews and printed documentation from designers and implementors of real-world compilation systems.

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riedelMar 2024

I looks like this is still basically most of the stuff covered by the normal compiler construction course I attended held by Gerhard Goos 20 years ago. It links some newer papers, so I might have a look. I liked the book by Steven Muchnick 'Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation' . I have to admit that after 18 years not having looked at compiler source code, I feel not up to speed particularly with a lot of profiling and path based optimisations. Also I guess some more advanced SIMD stuff must be out there looking at all the ML.

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AreliusJun 2023

For those that find it a bit light, I enjoyed Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation by Steven S. Muchnick. Which covers topics that I found much trickier.

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hoka-one-oneFeb 2020

I had a guy at Qualcomm Austin tell me to read Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation by Muchnik. I read it and a few months later I was working for Qualcomm San Diego. I've thought about thanking him but I doubt he'd remember me, it was such a small comment.

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anchpopJul 2019

This probably isn't it, but it sounds a lot like a compiler. If you're interested in that stuff you might be interested in checking out "Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation" [0] or the /r/programminglanguages subreddit.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Compiler-Design-Implementati...

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mhh__Aug 2018

It's a bit idiosyncratic but Steven Muchnick's "Advanced Compiler Design and implementation" is something of a bible for optimising compiler design. Of course, other books are available.

I haven't look around recently enough to name any off-hand but there are some really good free textbooks/monographs(etc.) on optimisation around. Search "ssabook", there's a really great data flow analysis book out there somewhere which if I find I will edit and include.

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virgilpNov 2017

I hate it that you can't see the syllabus without signing in. How is someone supposed to know whether (s)he's interested?

I've looked over it, it's not too dissimilar (on surface) with what I used to teach at the university. Might not be an accident since I remember at some point we switched from our own compiler skeleton to COOL, which is apparently what Stanford uses; so maybe I inspired my syllabus from Stanford's? I forget :) (for sure I did check the syllabi of several big US universities when building mine).

Interesting that he recommends "Engineering a Compiler"; I don't doubt that it's a good book but I don't know it. The third on my list (though admittedly a bit advanced) was Muchnick's "Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation".

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