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Comp.compilers is a moderated usenet news group addressing the topics of compilers in particular and programming language design and implementation in general. It started in 1986 as a moderated mailing list, but interest quickly grew to the point where it was promoted to a news group. Recent topics have included optimization techniques, language design issues, announcements of new compiler tools, and book reviews.

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Recent articles

Re: Array accesses are boring fw@deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer) (2024-03-15)
Announcing Ox release 1.12 thomas.evans.shields@gmail.com (Tom Shields) (2024-03-13)
Array accesses are boring johnl@taugh.com (John R Levine) (2024-03-06)
TDFA regular expression matching johnl@taugh.com (John R Levine) (2024-02-22)
Re: Interesting paper on regex NFA matching drikosev@gmail.com (Ev Drikos) (2024-02-04)
Re: Interesting paper on regex NFA matching christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com (Christopher F Clark) (2024-02-01)
Re: Interesting paper on regex NFA matching 433-929-6894@kylheku.com (Kaz Kylheku) (2024-01-29)
Re: Interesting paper on regex NFA matching christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com (Christopher F Clark) (2024-01-29)
Re: Interesting paper on regex NFA matching 433-929-6894@kylheku.com (Kaz Kylheku) (2024-01-27)
Re: Interesting paper on regex NFA matching christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com (Christopher F Clark) (2024-01-27)
Re: Interesting paper on regex NFA matching 433-929-6894@kylheku.com (Kaz Kylheku) (2024-01-26)
Re: Interesting paper on regex NFA matching cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (2024-01-26)
Interesting paper on regex NFA matching johnl@taugh.com (John R Levine) (2024-01-25)
Re: Which comes first, languages or compilers? tkoenig@netcologne.de (Thomas Koenig) (2023-11-02)
Re: Which comes first, languages or compilers? laguest@archeia.com (Luke A. Guest) (2023-10-30)

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