Re: New Book: Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures

dmjones wrote:


> > Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures: A Dependence-based
>
> I bought this book about 6 weeks ago. For once the price in the UK
> was much cheaper than the US :-)
>
> The title is a bit misleading. It should really be called everything
> there is to know about data dependency analysis.
>
> The cases considered are all built around Fortran, which is not
> surprising given the authors background. C gets a brief discussion
> over a few pages.


Do you think it would be a good reference to explain shortcomings in
existing compilers ?


Obviously, I'm thinking of g77. It would be *very* handy to have some
sort of reference text to point to in explaining: "Indeed, g77 doesn't
do this sort of optimisation, <work-is-underway> | <here-is-why> |
<if-you-know-how-to-do-this-please-contribute>".


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