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Wednesday September 06, 2006

Recommended reading for compiler writers Some thoughts on this topic raised by Peter, while the Dragon book is certainly a classic and solidly covers the basics, it is now long in the tooth and doesn't cover important compilation and code generation concepts and techniques useful for more recent language environments, like the Java programming language and virtual machine. Requests for compilation references are a common question on the comp.compilers newsgroup and a number of recommendations (including the Dragon book) are listed in the group's FAQ.

For numerics related topics, Goldberg's What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic discusses why not all floating-point "optimizations" that can be applied should be applied and Henry S. Warren's Hacker's Delight is a rich resource for low-level arithmetic tricks. (2006-09-06 19:04:29.0) Permalink