Fortran H and PL.8: Papers about Great Optimizing Compilers [pdf] (2015)

[idbfs]

The authors of these slides also wrote a well-regarded textbook, Engineering a Compiler.

[samsquire]

I recently wrote a toy barebones compiler for amd64 x86_64 It cannot compile anything significant besides addition and multiplication expressions yet but I think the code is educational.

My dream is to write a JIT compiler that is similar to HolyC. I want it to be expressive and powerful and parallel and concurrent.

I do live range analysis and simple register allocation.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/compiler

[throwaway81523]

This is a good slide presentation, about three compiler papers. from 1980-1982. Date of the presentation is 2015 which should be in the thread title.

[pfdietz]

I wonder how they tested these compilers.

[pjmlp]

On PL.8 case by creating an OS for RISC research at IBM, before they decided to reboot the effort as Aix, by joining the newly UNIX workstation market.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800230.806977

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32902737