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Course Description

Theoretical and practical aspects of building modern optimizing compilers. Topics: intermediate representations, basic blocks and flow graphs, data flow analysis, partial evaluation and redundancy elimination, loop optimizations, register allocation, instruction scheduling, interprocedural memory hierarchy optimizations. Students will implement significant optimizations within the framework of a modern research compiler (SUIF).

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of computer architecture (pipelines, caches etc...).
Experience programming in C.
A course on compiler front-ends (like CS488) is NOT required.

References
Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation, Steve Muchnick
Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, Aho, Sethi and Ullman
Others as needed...

There is NO required text.
Grading Criteria

Midterm (25%)
Final (35%)
Individual Project Assignments (40%)

TA
Tor Aamodt, aamodt@eecg.toronto.edu
Instructor

Michael Voss
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: Engineering Annex (EA) 310
Phone : (416) 946 - 8031
Email : voss@eecg.toronto.edu
Web : www.eecg.toronto.edu/~voss