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This entirely revised second edition of Engineering a Compiler is full of technical updates and new material covering the latest developments in compiler technology. In this comprehensive text you will learn important techniques for constructing a modern compiler. Leading educators and researchers Keith Cooper and Linda Torczon combine basic principles with pragmatic insights from their experience building state-of-the-art compilers. They will help you fully understand important techniques such as compilation of imperative and object-oriented languages, construction of static single assignment forms, instruction scheduling, and graph-coloring register allocation.
In-depth treatment of algorithms and techniques used in the front end of a modern compilerFocus on code optimization and code generation, the primary areas of recent research and developmentImprovements in presentation including conceptual overviews for each chapter, summaries and review questions for sections, and prominent placement of definitions for new termsExamples drawn from several different programming languages Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Free Engineering a Compiler [Kindle Edition]
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- Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 2 edition (January 18, 2011)
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- Language: English
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This book is pure theory. The title didn't convey this to me.
If you haven't yet created your own compiler, then I would look elsewhere. The best bet would be too get "Brinch Hansen on Pascal Compilers", which contains a small amount of theory but heaps of code (fully commented and understandable) which you can easily digest and then modify for your custom compiler.
The compilers I've written (based largely on Hansen) used the "top down" method, which can easily be coded by hand. Although a great introduction to compilers, there is not much discussion on bottom-up parsing or code optimization.
The first half of the book reviewed here was a good refresher for me about compilation techniques. I could follow it easily, but I knew most of the material beforehand (from Hansen). The other part was different because it explained bottom-up parsing well. I never "got it" when reading the Dragon book or others. So, I was impressed by the first half of the book.
The second half is about optimization. The topics here were either briefly mentioned in Hansen (but no implementation was given), or else were absent. Hansen's approach was to use a stack-based machine, which is simple to do but not good for optimizing code. In this new book, the authors don't use a stack-based approach, but rather a register approach. This allows for lots of types of optimization. It's heavy going. There are some diagrams, but not enough for me. Pseudo code was given to explain each optimization technique, but there were always special cases that threw a spanner in the works. I liked the constant summaries, but when I faced the questions at the end of the chapters, I quickly realized I hadn't digested the material fully!