| Course Description | This course considers advanced topics in compilation. Emphasis will be placed on advanced topics in code generation, register allocation, and optimization. Specific topics discussed will include: intermediate program representations; code generation and machine independent peephole optimization; register allocation; formulation and solution of data flow analysis problems; optimization using data flow information; memory-hierarchy optimizations: profile-guided code placement; instruction scheduling. Heavy emphasis will be placed on implementation of the concepts discussed in class. | |||||||||
| Prerequisites | CSc 453 and 473, or their equivalent. | |||||||||
| Lecture Time and Place: | MW 2:00-3:15 PM, |
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| Textbook: | No formal textbook. Technical papers from the literature will be assigned as reading during the course of the semester, and the instructor's lecture notes will be available as reference. | |||||||||
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| Project | Assignments C-- language spec |
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