The Compiler Design Handbook Optimizations and Machine Code Generation

The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation is designed to help you meet those challenges. Written by top researchers and designers from around the world, it presents detailed, up-to-date discussions on virtually all aspects of compiler optimizations and code generation. It covers a wide range of advanced topics, focusing on contemporary architectures such as VLIW, superscalar, multiprocessor, and digital signal processing. It also includes detailed presentations that highlight the different techniques required for optimizing programs written in parallel and those written in object-oriented languages. Each chapter is self-contained, treats its topic in depth, and includes a section of future research directions.Compiler design has always been a highly specialized subject with a fine blend of intricate theory and difficult implementation. Yet compilers play an increasingly vital role in the quest for improved performance. With its careful attention to the most researched, difficult, and widely discussed topics in compiler design, The Compiler Design Handbook offers a unique opportunity for designers and researchers to update their knowledge, refine their skills, and prepare for future innovations.Current and future computer architectures pose immense challenges that exceed the capabilities of traditional compilation techniques. In this handbook, serious researchers and state-of-the-art compiler designers will find a wealth of in-depth knowledge related to modern compiler design, particularly in optimization and code generation. It presents techniques very recently developed and covers significant advances not yet found in other books. By focusing on the most researched, difficult, and widely discussed topics in compiler design, this handbook provides designers with a unique opportunity to update their skills in preparation for future design innovations.Written by top researchers and designers, this book presents detailed discussions on virtually all aspects of compiler optimizations and code generation. It covers a wide range of advanced topics with focus on contemporary architectures such as VLIW, superscalar, multiprocessor, and digital signal processing. It also highlights the techniques needed for optimizing programs written in parallel and those written in object-oriented languages. With careful attention to the most difficult and widely discussed topics in compiler design, this handbook offers a unique opportunity for designers and researchers to update their knowledge, refine their skills, and prepare for future innovations.Addressing readers that already have a sound background in traditional compiler design, Srikant and Shankar (both of the department of computer science and automation, Indian Institute of Science, India) present discussions of some of the more complex issues brought about by recent changes in the field of compiler design. These include the fine-tuning of compiler back-ends to exploit features such as multiple memory banks, pipelines, and clustered architectures. Such possibilities include speculative execution, software pipelining, instruction scheduling, and dynamic compilation. Also addressed are optimizations that are tailored for the use of object-oriented language, algorithms for program slicing and shape analysis, and other methods of optimization and code generation. The topics included are of relevance mainly to the compilation of imperative languages. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)