Re: Current work in compiler/language design.

objsys@netcom.com (Bob Hathaway, Object Systems) writes:
>// What are the current hot spots in compiler/language design ?
>I think the previous responses (on explicit and automatic parallelization,
>memory hierarchies, etc.) are best categorized as a EE view of writing
>optimizing compilers for their latest RISC/MIMD/SIMD architectures (and
>they left out object-oriented architectures at that).


I doubt the EE's would have me, except perhaps to write compilers for
their latest toys. I was trying to describe what some of the compiler
people at Rice consider significant and important problems. The viewpoint
is narrow and significantly biased towards high-performance computing. In
particular, we usually think about the problems posed by all these new
machines.


(if "narrow and biased" sounds bad, think "focused")


>I thought I'd put
>in a few cents worth for the programming language community.


And they were good words, except...
>The hot spot in programming languages today is object-oriented


This also seems narrow and biased. Every year, POPL is filled with plenty
of papers on topics besides OO. I think POPL reflects (some of) the
direction(s) of the programming language community -- OOPSLA reflects the
interests of people who are into OOP.


Preston Briggs
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