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new codegen thoughts...

Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:46:26 +0000 (UTC)

well, basically, here is the issue: my compiler architecture has somewhat drifted from what it was originally, and I am essentially considering writing a new codegen (to hopefully eliminate the current mess). original architecture: C was parsed into an XML-based AST;

Re: Books and other things which cost money to improve performance

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:45:19 +0000 (UTC)

New edition of Basics of Compiler Design

torbenm@diku.dk (Torben Ægidius Mogensen) — Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:44:33 +0000 (UTC)

I have made a new edition of Basics of Compiler Design. The new edition contains a new chapter about memory management and a lot of smaller extensions and modifications. As usual, you can download the PDF for free from http://www.diku.dk/~torbenm/Basics/, or you can buy a printed copy

Announce: XLR-Talk, a Google group for discussing the XL extensible language

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:44:17 +0000 (UTC)

XL (extensible language, see http://xlr.sf.net) now has a Google group, http://groups.google.com/group/xlr-talk. You are welcome to join us for discussions on this language based on parse tree rewrites, or on more general compilation topics.

Writing a managed compiler framework, suggestions/feedback?

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:24:49 +0000 (UTC)

I'm writing a managed compiler framework primarily focused on the .NET Common Language Infrastructure, and I wanted some insight. I'm mostly looking for what would be favorable/functionally acceptable when it came to the various pre-compilation functions of a language's compiler.

Compiler positions available for week ending August 29

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:52:48 +0000 (UTC)

This is a digest of ``help wanted'' and ``position available'' messages received at comp.compilers during the preceding week. Messages must advertise a position having something to do with compilers and must also conform to the guidelines periodically posted in misc.jobs.offered.

CFP: Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'11, California, Mar 2011)

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:52:26 +0000 (UTC)

2011 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'11) Call for Papers http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erez/vee11/VEE_2011/Home_Page.html March 9th-11th, 2011 Newport Beach Marriott Hotel 900 Newport Center Drive Newport Beach, CA

Seed7 Release 2010-08-22

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:14:31 +0000 (UTC)

Hello, I have released a new version of Seed7: seed7_05_20100822.tgz In the Seed7 programming language new statements and operators can be declared easily. Types are first class objects and therefore templates/generics need no special syntax. Object orientation is

Calculating resulting types of expressions

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:17:51 +0000 (UTC)

Last year I presented a small series of videos about an automated translator from Java to C++. This translator wasn't able to calculate the resulting type of expressions. Now there is an additional video which demonstrates how such calculations are done at a translator from

Re: Compiling C++ Templates as opposed to Preprocessing them.

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:08:09 +0000 (UTC)

On Jul 27, 3:06 am, Seima Rao wrote: > Hi, > > Can readers of this forum advise on whether it would be > fruitful to consider compiling C++ templates to > IR instead of preprocessing them? I'm unsure what definitions of compiling and preprocessing you're