Re: State of the Art

"Aaron Gray" <ang.usenet@gmail.com>
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:06:42 +0100

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From: "Aaron Gray" <ang.usenet@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:06:42 +0100
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 08-07-033
Keywords: parse
Posted-Date: 25 Jul 2008 07:49:19 EDT

"Peter" <peter.deussen@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote in message
> I havn't worked in compiler construction and programming languages for
> some years, but now I have a chance to return to this area. I would
> like to find out what happened while I was absent.
>
> So, let me ask the following questions:
> - In your opinion, what are the greatest advances in compiler
> construction in the last ten years?


Yes there's been quite alot in terms of grammar recognition, Tomita's
GLR, and a number of extensions and speedups of the originally tainted
algorithm. Then PEG and PackRat parsing which are more natural to use
than LR grammars.


Then for backends there's LLVM :-


        http://llvm.org


And Microsoft Research'es Pheonix :-


        http://research.microsoft.com/phoenix/?0sr=a


There's a weath of papers on CiteSeer that are worth looking at too :-


        http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/


Good luck and have fun,


Aaron

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