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The compiler is the programmer's primary tool. Understanding the compiler is therefore critical for programmers, even if they never build one. Furthermore, many design techniques that emerged in the ...

Compiler construction was probably my favorite class. We did a pascal compiler on Solaris. I let my partners handle most of the assembly language research, but still ended up doing a large part of it ...

Sometimes referred to as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” the A.M. Turing Award this year will go to Alfred Vaino Aho and Jeffrey David Ullman, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced ...

Do you ever wonder how the Java compiler works? Do you need to write parsers for markup documents that do not subscribe to standard formats such as HTML or XML? Or do you want to implement your own ...

A technical paper titled “A Multi-threaded Fast Hardware Compiler for HDL” was published by researchers at UC Santa Cruz. “A set of new Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) are emerging to ease ...

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...

A Java compiler is a program that takes the text file work of a developer and compiles it into a platform-independent Java file. Java compilers include the Java Programming Language Compiler (javac), ...