What is the future of Compiler ?

Where the compilers are headed? This is a very broad topic, I will try
to address some parts


First, most problems in compilers are intractable (NP), this ensures
heuristics will always be needed and developers and researchers will
have jobs.


In terms of research, Scanning and parsing have had a lot of research
and are thus fairly matured. Optimizations is going to be an active
research area forever with newer things regularly coming up like using
machine learning for Heuristics. Maybe with multicore processors,
automatic parallelization could come into focus again.


In terms of job areas, There are going to be many domain specific
compilers, that is the volume of jobs Like graphics processors
(nVidia, ATI), embedded processors, low power ones (Transmeta) Off
course traditional heavyweight compilers are there to stay but with
fewer openings (Intel, Microsoft compilers) Many companies adapt gcc
compiler/toolchain to their needs (Google)


~Inderaj

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