Re: Java compiler courses

George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
28 Apr 2007 23:30:57 -0400

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From: George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 28 Apr 2007 23:30:57 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 07-04-074 07-04-098 07-04-120 07-04-127
Keywords: courses
Posted-Date: 28 Apr 2007 23:30:57 EDT

On 27 Apr 2007 11:28:06 -0400, Hans-Peter Diettrich
<DrDiettrich1@aol.com> wrote:


>IMO an understanding, of how compilers work, is a must for code
>writers.


I agree with you and I happen to have a compiler specific education,
but in practice all a performance developer needs is to understand how
her particular compiler translates a particular program construct.


I've done a significant amount of high performance and hard real-time
programming where understanding what output the compiler produced was
vitally important. But it was never the case that I needed intimate
knowledge of the compiler's algorithms to do my work ... it was
sufficient to know how a procedure frame was layed out and be able to
map HLL inputs to assembler outputs.


George

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