Overview
From the Foreword by Susan L. Graham:
This book takes on the challenges of contemporary languages and architectures, and prepares the reader for the new compiling problems that will inevitably arise in the future.
The definitive book on advanced compiler design
This comprehensive, up-to-date work examines advanced issues in the design and implementation of compilers for modern processors. Written for professionals and graduate students, the book guides readers in designing and implementing efficient structures for highly optimizing compilers for real-world languages. Covering advanced issues in fundamental areas of compiler design, this book discusses a wide array of possible code optimizations, determining the relative importance of optimizations, and selecting the most effective methods of implementation.
* Lays the foundation for understanding the major issues of advanced compiler design
* Treats optimization in-depth
* Uses four case studies of commercial compiling suites to illustrate different approaches to compiler structure, intermediate-code design, and optimization—these include Sun Microsystems's compiler for SPARC, IBM's for POWER and PowerPC, DEC's for Alpha, and Intel's for Pentium an related processors
* Presents numerous clearly defined algorithms based on actual cases
* Introduces Informal Compiler Algorithm Notation (ICAN), a language devised by the author to communicate algorithms effectively to people
Synopsis
From the Foreword by Susan L. Graham:
This book takes on the challenges of contemporary languages and architectures, and prepares the reader for the new compiling problems that will inevitably arise in the future.
The definitive book on advanced compiler design
This comprehensive, up-to-date work examines advanced issues in the design and implementation of compilers for modern processors. Written for professionals and graduate students, the book guides readers in designing and implementing efficient structures for highly optimizing compilers for real-world languages. Covering advanced issues in fundamental areas of compiler design, this book discusses a wide array of possible code optimizations, determining the relative importance of optimizations, and selecting the most effective methods of implementation.
- Lays the foundation for understanding the major issues of advanced compiler design
- Treats optimization in-depth
- Uses four case studies of commercial compiling suites to illustrate different approaches to compiler structure, intermediate-code design, and optimization—these include Sun Microsystems's compiler for SPARC, IBM's for POWER and PowerPC, DEC's for Alpha, and Intel's for Pentium an related processors
- Presents numerous clearly defined algorithms based on actual cases
- Introduces Informal Compiler Algorithm Notation (ICAN), a language devised by the author to communicate algorithms effectively to people
Booknews
Guides professionals and graduate students in designing and implementing highly optimizing compilers for real-world languages. The author covers a wide range of code optimizations, explaining how to determine the relative importance of the optimizations and the most effective ways to implement them. He uses four case studies of commercial compiling suites, including Sun Microsystem's for SPARC, IBM's for POWER and PowerPC, DEC's for Alpha, and Intel's for Pentium and related processors, to illustrate various approaches to compiler structure, intermediate-code design, and optimization. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.