Re: Muchnick's book, was Dragon Book - update necessary?

Make certain you buy the third printing of Muchnick's book, however.
Printings 1 and 2 were so full of errors that they were very difficult
to follow. I have a 1st printing that has over 100 pages of errata
that I've been unable to update because the list of errata is rather
fragmented. In fact, even the third printing has 23 pages with
errors, albeit less egregious ones.


Muchnick book home page:
http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/catalog.asp?ISBN=1-55860-320-4


The other popular text on optimization is Robert Morgan's "Building an
Optimizing Compiler", 1998, ISBN: 155558179X, Digital Press. I have
nothing bad to say about Morgan's book. :-)


Morgan book home page (without its frame):
http://www.bhusa.com/bookscat/search/details.asp?isbn=155558179X&scope=Butterworth+Heinemann&country=United+States&mscssid=E3SA3E4RK6SR2P5F00A3HAMCSL2679H3


        Randy


Bjorn De Sutter wrote:
> If you're looking for more recent stuff on optimizations,
> Steven S. Muchnick's book "Advanced Compiler Design & Implementation"
> is excellent IMHO.


--
Randy Crawford
crwfrd@umich.edu
http://www.engin.umich.edu/labs/cpc

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