The Design of an Optimizing Compiler,

Abstract

There are important classes of programs which must be highly efficient on a particular computer, independent of how fast that computer may be; systems programs are one such class. In order to be able to write these programs in a higher-level language and accrue the benefits associated with the use of such languages, there must be compilers which will produce highly efficient representations of these programs. The paper describes the design and implementation of a highly optimizing compiler for the BLISS language. A notational scheme is described in terms of which an overview of the compiler is presented. The logical phases of the compiler are described in some detail.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0773838

Entities

People

  • Charles Weinstock
  • Richard K. Johnsson
  • Steven O. Hobbs
  • William A. Wulf

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Compilers
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Language

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science.
  • Systems Analysis and Design