In computer science , a compilercompiler or compiler generator is a tool that creates a parsing parser , interpreter computer software interpreter , or compiler from some form of formal description of a language and machine . The earliest and still most common form of compilercompiler is a parser generator ... language , and whose generated output is the source code of a parser often used as a component of a compiler ... have not yet reached maturity. The ideal compilercompiler takes a description of a programming language and a target instruction set architecture, and automatically generates a usable compiler ... compiler generators are not capable of handling semantic or target architecture information. Variants ... of the earliest 1964 , surprisingly powerful, versions of compiler compilers is META II MetaII , which accepted grammars and Code generation compiler code generation rules, and is able to compile itself and other languages. Some experimental compiler compilers take as input a formal description of programming ... in 1978. ref Peter Mosses, SIS A Compiler Generator System Using Denotational Semantics, Report 78 ... compiler and the code it produced were inefficient in time and space. No production compilers are currently built in this way, but research continues. The PQCC Production Quality CompilerCompiler ... for machine description. Compiler compilers exist in many flavors, including bottom up rewrite ... compilercompiler to use that name was written by Tony Brooker in 1960 and was used to create ... the Atlas Autocode compiler. However it was rather different from modern compiler compilers, and today would probably be described as being somewhere between a highly customisable generic compiler and an Extensible programming extensible syntax language . The name compilercompiler was far more appropriate for Brooker s system than it is for most modern compiler compilers, which are more accurately described as parser generators. It is almost certain that the CompilerCompiler name has entered ... more details
About the computing term the anime Compiler anime Expert subject Computer science date December 2008 ... compiler A compiler is a computer program or set of programs that transforms source code written ... source code is to create an executable program. The name compiler is primarily used for programs that translate ... system is different from the one on which the compiler runs, the compiler is known as a cross compiler ... a program that translates the form of expressions without a change of language. A compiler ... , semantic analysis Syntax directed translation , code generation compiler code generation , and code optimization . Program faults caused by incorrect compiler behavior can be very difficult to track down and work around therefore, compiler implementors invest a lot of time ensuring the compiler correctness correctness of their software . The term compilercompiler is sometimes used to refer ... Main History of compiler construction Software for early computers was primarily written in assembly ... than the cost of writing a compiler. The very limited Computer storage memory capacity of early computers also created many technical problems when implementing a compiler. Towards the end of the 1950s ... compilers were developed. The first compiler was written by Grace Hopper , in 1952, for the A 0 ... introduced the first complete compiler in 1957. COBOL was an early language to be compiled on multiple .... Early compilers were written in assembly language. The first self hosting compiler &mdash capable ... The New Compiler, AIM 39 CSAIL Digital Archive Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Series publisher publications.ai.mit.edu ref Since the 1970s it has become common practice to implement a compiler ... C have been popular choices for implementation language. Building a self hosting compiler is a bootstrapping compilers bootstrapping problem the first such compiler for a language must be compiled either by hand or by a compiler written in a different language, or as in Hart and Levin s Lisp ... more details
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merge from History of compiler construction date April 2011 Unreferenced date January 2010 Compiler construction is an area of computer science that deals with the theory and practice of developing programming languages and their associated compiler s. The theoretical portion is primarily concerned with syntax , grammar and semantics of programming languages. One could say that this gives this particular area of computer science a strong tie with linguistics . Some courses on compiler construction will include a simplified grammar of a spoken language that can be used to form a valid sentence for the purposes of providing students with an analogy to help them understand how grammar works for programming languages. The practical portion covers actual implementation of compilers for languages. Students will typically end up writing the front end of a compiler for a simplistic teaching language, such as Micro programming language Micro . Subfields Parsing Program analysis Program transformation Compiler optimization Compiler or program optimization Code generation compiler Code generation See also Functional compiler Programming language implementation Further reading Alfred V. Aho , Monica S. Lam , Ravi Sethi , Jeffrey D. Ullman . Compilers Principles, Techniques, and Tools . Michael Wolfe computer scientist Michael Wolfe . High Performance Compilers for Parallel Computing . ISBN 978 0805327304 External links http compilers.iecc.com crenshaw Let s Build a Compiler, by Jack Crenshaw , A tutorial on compiler construction. Wikipedia Books Compiler construction prog lang stub Category Compiler construction ar de Compilerbau ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2007 Infobox animanga Header name Compiler image caption ja kanji ja romaji genre Science fiction Infobox animanga Print type manga author Kia Asamiya publisher Kodansha demographic imprint magazine Afternoon magazine Afternoon first April 23, 1991 last February 23, 1993 volumes 3 volume list Infobox animanga Video type ova director Yasushi Murayama Yin chapter br Takao Kato Yang chapter producer writer music studio Studio Fantasia licensor flagicon Canada fagicon United States A.D. Vision ADV Films ADV Films first March 5, 1994 last October 5, 1994 runtime 30 minutes each episodes 2 episode list Infobox animanga Video type ova title Compiler 2 director producer writer music studio Studio Fantasia licensor flagicon Canada fagicon United States A.D. Vision ADV Films ADV Films released 1995 runtime 50 minutes Infobox animanga Footer nihongo Compiler is a two part anime original video animation . Compiler as in a compiler computer compiler is an anime based on the manga by Kia Asamiya which features two girls, Compiler and Assembler, who arrived on earth from 2 D cyberspace to play a game in which they will delete the real world and reform it. However, they move in with two young men called Toshi and Nachi and lose interest in the game. After Toshi is injured and the game is cancelled, two beings called Plasma and Compiler 2 are sent in to erase the girls. The opening theme is called I Was Born to fall in Love and the end theme is called Full Up Mind , both by Masami Okui . As well as the soundtrack, a single of the opening theme and three image albums Compiler , Assembler and Interpreter were released. External links ann manga 4695 ann anime 131 Compiler ann anime 560 Compiler 2 Category ADV Films Category Anime of 1994 Category Anime OVAs Category Manga of 1991 Category Science fiction anime and manga Category Seinen manga es Compiler it Compiler manga ja Compiler pt Compiler ... more details
A Java compiler is a compiler for the Java programming language Java programming language . The most common form of output from a Java compiler is Class file format Java class files containing platform neutral Java bytecode . There exist also compilers emitting optimized Machine code native machine code for a particular hardware operating system combination. Most Java to bytecode compilers, Jikes being a well known exception, do virtually no Optimization computer science optimization , leaving this until Run time program lifecycle phase run time to be done by the JRE Citation needed date April 2007 . The Java Virtual Machine JVM loads the class files and either interpreter computing interprets the bytecode or just in time compilation just in time compiles it to machine code and then possibly optimizes it using dynamic compilation . The very first Java compiler developed by Sun Microsystems was written in C using some libraries from C . Citation needed date February 2007 Major Java compilers As of 2010, the following are major Java compiler s citation needed date February 2012 javac , included in Java Development Kit JDK from Sun Microsystems , open sourced since 13 November 2006. GNU Compiler for Java , a part of the GNU Compiler Collection , which compiles C programming language C , Fortran , Pascal programming language Pascal and other programming language s besides Java. It can also generate native code using the back end of GCC. ECJ, the Eclipse Compiler for Java, is an open source incremental compiler used by the Eclipse software Eclipse project. Java decompilers A Java ... decompilers for Java. External links http openjdk.java.net groups compiler Sun s OpenJDK javac page http www.jcp.org en jsr detail?id 199 JSR 199 Java Compiler API Java Specification Request for invoking the Java compiler from a Java program http people.cis.ksu.edu hatcliff 605 XC java comp.pdf.gz ... , Vol. 28 3 , pages 297 327, March 1998. DEFAULTSORT Java Compiler Category Java platform Compiler ... more details
In computing , compiler correctness is the branch of software engineering that deals with trying to show that a compiler behaves according to its programming language language specification Citation needed date March 2009 . Techniques include developing the compiler using formal methods and using rigorous testing often called compiler validation on an existing compiler. Formal methods Expand section date March 2009 Compiler validation with formal methods involves a long chain of formal, deductive ... include model checking , formal verification , and provably correct semantics directed compiler ... Testing represents a significant portion of the effort in shipping a compiler, but receives comparatively ... and Tools Aho, Sethi, & Ullman has a single page section on compiler testing, with no named ... to get right that we dare say that no optimizing compiler is completely error free Thus, the most important objective in writing a compiler is that it is correct. ref ibid, 2006, p. 16. ref Fraser ... Christopher Fraser coauthors David Hanson title A Retargetable C compiler Design and Implementation ... compiler testing. ref cite journal author Flash Sheridan year 2007 title Practical Testing of a C99 Compiler Using Output Comparison journal Software Practice and Experience volume 37 issue 14 pages 1475 ... 24 Bibliography at Cite web url http pobox.com flash compiler testing bibliography.html title http pobox.com flash compiler testing bibliography.html accessdate 2009 03 13 . ref Commercial compiler compliance validation suites are available from ACE ref Cite web url http www.ace.nl compiler supertest.html title http www.ace.nl compiler supertest.html accessdate 2011 01 15 ref , Perennial ref Cite ... on compiler testing are the Fortran ref Cite web url http www.itl.nist.gov div897 ctg fortran ... 2011 09 01 ref validation suites. See also Compiler Verification and Validation software References references Category Compiler construction prog lang stub ... more details
A functional compiler is a compiler for a functional programming language . Functional compilers perform such transformation on source code which transform it to continuation passing style or administrative normal form and need to handle tail call s correctly. Further reading Simon Peyton Jones 1987 . http research.microsoft.com en us um people simonpj papers slpj book 1987 index.htm The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages R. Douence and P. Fradet. A systematic study of functional language implementations . ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 20 2 344 387, March 1998. Several proceedings on Implementation of functional languages in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. External links http scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu 11 ghuloum.pdf An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction compsci stub Category Implementation of functional programming languages ... more details
Expert subject Computer science date February 2010 The term incremental compiler may refer to two different types of compiler . Definition Imperative programming In imperative programming and software development , an incremental compiler is one that when invoked, takes only the changes of a known set of source file s and updates any corresponding output files in the compiler s target language, often bytecode that may already exist from previous compilations. By effectively building upon previously compiled output files, the incremental compiler avoids the wasteful recompiling of entire source ... compiler reduces the Granularity In computing granularity of a language s traditional compiling units while maintaining the language s semantics , such that the compiler can append and replace smaller ... more interactive programming environment. It is not unusual that an incremental compiler .... One downside to this type of incremental compiler is that it cannot easily optimization computer science ... cycle release , an incremental compiler would be used throughout development, and a standard batch compiler would be used on release. Interactive programming In the interactive programming paradigm ... below now available online ref an interactive compiler refers to a compiler that is actually a part of the runtime system of the source language. The compiler can be invoked at runtime on some source ... of incremental compilers Incremental compilers for imperative language compiling GNU Compiler Collection ... C with a fast incremental compiler The Eclipse software Eclipse software development platform platform has a Java programming language Java incremental compiler included as a part of the Java Development ... ref The IBM VisualAge C compiler 4.0 is an incremental compiler for C Embarcadero Delphi , previously ... in New Jersey Poplog ML Forth programming language Forth Kerridge KCML References Reflist See also Compiler ... http www.ddj.com cpp 184410345?pgno 1 Dr. Dobb s Journal about making an incremental C compiler http ... more details
An ahead of time AOT compiler is a compiler that implements ahead of time compilation. This refers to the act of compiling an intermediate language, such as Java bytecode , .NET Common Intermediate Language CIL , or IBM System 38 or IBM System i Technology Independent Machine Interface code, into a system dependent binary. Most languages with a managed code runtime that can be compiled to an intermediate language take advantage of Just in time compilation just in time JIT Citation needed date May 2011 . This, briefly, compiles intermediate code into machine code for a native run while the intermediate code is executing, which may decrease an application s performance. Ahead of time compilation eliminates the need for this step by performing the compilation before execution rather than during execution. Ahead of time compilation for dynamic typing dynamically typed languages to native machine code or other static VM bytecode is possible only in a limited number of cases. Citation needed date February 2011 For example the HiPE AOT compiler for Erlang programming language Erlang can do this because of advanced static type reconstruction techniques and types speculations. AOT compilation is mostly beneficial in cases where the interpreter which is small is too slow or Just in time compilation JIT is too complex or introduces undesirable latencies. Citation needed date February 2011 In most situations with fully AOT compiled programs and libraries it is possible to drop considerable fraction of runtime environment, thus saving disk space, memory and starting time. Because of this it can ... like a standard native compiler. The difference is that AOT transforms the bytecode of an existing ... SharpOS AOT compiler SharpOS AOT CIL IL2CPU compiler IL2CPU CIL Native Image Generator CIL GNU Compiler ... with AOT compiler http gcc.gnu.org java GNU Compiler for Java http www.aonix.com perc.html ... www.cs.vu.nl manta manta Category Compilers programming software stub de Ahead of time Compiler ... more details
Infobox Software name clip developer ITK Uri Hnykin latest release version 1.2.0 latest release date release date and age 2006 11 01 operating system Unix like use Clipper programming language Clipper Compiler license GNU General Public License GPL or http www.itk.ru english clip cliplicense comm.shtml Commercial License website http www.itk.ru english index.shtml http www.itk.ru Clip compiler is a multi platform Linux and Windows Cygwin Clipper programming language compiler with many additional features and libraries for gtk , fivewin, netto, MySQL , ODBC , cti, tcp, gzip, Interbase , Oracle database Oracle , Postgres , which is quite fast, has support for Hyper Six and FoxPro RDD s, and can compile existing Clipper programming language Clipper source code with very minor changes. It has support for all the features in the original compiler, can access multiple types of databases such as Oracle, Informix , Interbase, MySQL, Postgres, all Xbase dialects tables FoxPro 2 Foxpro , Visual FoxPro , COMIX, indexes NDX,NTX,CDX, It supports object oriented programming , preprocessor, dynamic and static libraries, several functions for math, string management, arrays or vectors. Clip is licensed under a GPL type License and uses the GNU CC compiler. External links http www.itk.ru english index.shtml Clip compiler http www.clip castellano.com.ar Spanish user group of Clip Clip castellano http clip br.web.br.com Brazilian User Group of Clip xBase Category DOS software Category 4GL Category XBase programming language family compu lang stub es Compilador Clip pt Clip ... more details
LCC Local C Compiler or Little C Compiler is a small retargetable compiler program for the ANSI C programming language. It is available at no charge for personal use but is not free software . ref name license cite web title LCC License url https github.com drh lcc blob master CPYRIGHT accessdate 5 July 2011 ref It was developed by Chris Fraser and David Hanson computer scientist David Hanson . id Software s computer game Quake III relies on a modified version of LCC to compile source code for its virtual machine . LCC LCC is simple to understand and well documented. Its design is described in Fraser and Hanson s book A Retargetable C Compiler Design and Implementation . The book includes most of the source code for version 3.6 of the compiler, which was written as a literate programming literate program using noweb . As of July 2011 the current version of LCC is 4.2, but much of the book still applies to this version. The major change since the book was published is in the code generator interface, which is described in a separate document. ref cite web title The lcc 4.x Code Generation Interface last1 Fraser first1 Christopher W. last2 Hanson first2 David R. date July 2001 publisher Microsoft Research id Technical Report MSR TR 2001 64 url http storage.webhop.net documents interface4.pdf accessdate 5 July 2011 ref The source code for LCC is around 20,000 lines, much smaller than many other compilers. ref Sao Jie Chen, Guang Huei Lin, Pao Ann Hsiung, Yu Hen Hu. Hardware software co design of a multimedia SOC platform . Section 5.6.1 LCC Compiler Infrastructure. http books.google.com ... result&ct result&resnum 3&ved 0CEMQ6AEwAg v onepage&q LCC 20compiler&f false ref The Tiny C Compiler ... than GCC. ref Rainer Leupers, Peter Marwedel. Retargetable compiler technology for embedded systems ... the original LCC compiler. It features Compiler Linker IDE with integrated resource editor Diverse ... C Compiler Design and Implementation last1 Fraser first1 Christopher W. last2 Hanson first2 ... more details
A cross compiler is a compiler capable of creating executable code for a platform computing platform other than the one on which the compiler is run. Cross compiler programming tool tool s are used to generate ... have one or more platforms in use. Not targeted by this definition are Source to source compiler source ... The fundamental use of a cross compiler is to separate the build environment from target environment ... the machinery for cooking food. This computer will not be powerful enough to run a compiler, a file .... By using a cross compiler, a single build environment can be set up to compile for each of these targets ... of a future platform, one uses a cross compiler to compile necessary tools such as the operating system and a native compiler. Compiling native code for emulators for older now obsolete platforms like ... compilers were developed. The virtual machine paradigm allows the same compiler output to be used ... running Windows XP on an IA 32 processor to build a cross compiler that runs on machine B e.g. running ... whose name is on the product native Compiler for machine A 1 e.g. compiler from Microsoft Visual Studio is used to build the gcc native compiler for machine A 2 . The gcc native compiler for machine A 2 is used to build the gcc cross compiler from machine A to machine B 3 The gcc cross compiler from machine A to machine B 3 is used to build the gcc cross compiler from machine B to machine C 4 The end result cross compiler 4 will not be able to run on your build machine A instead you would use it on machine ... code which will first build its own toolchain with the host s compiler this, in turn, will be used to build the cross compiler which will be used to build the whole system. The term Canadian Cross ... cross compilers 1979 ALGOL 68C generated ZCODE , this added on porting the compiler and other ALGOL 68 applications to alternate platforms. To compile the ALGOL 68C compiler required about 120kB of memory. With Z80 its 64kB memory is too small to actually compile the compiler. So for the Z80 the compiler ... more details
Refimprove date August 2010 An odds compiler or trader is a person employed by a bookmaker or betting exchange who sets the odds for events such as sports betting sporting outcomes for customers to place gambling bets on. Apart from pricing markets, they also engage in any activity regarding the trading aspects of gambling, such as monitoring customer accounts and the profitability of their operations. The odds are derived from a variety of factors through analysis of information. Certain markets are highly statistics statistical , whereas other markets require more intuition and insight. An odds compiler may be required to monitor the financial position the bookmaker is in and adjust their position and odds accordingly. They may also be consulted as to whether to accept a bet or not, usually in the case where a very large bet is being placed, so as to not incur dangerously high liabilities. Odds are usually not set completely independent from other bookmakers but are influenced by what others are quoting. This is particularly important when the overround is below 100 and hence arbitrage betting , where betters can make a profit regardless of the outcome, is possible see mathematics of bookmaking . In this case, the bookmaker with the most aberrant odds would usually alter their odds closer to other bookmakers prices. The odds are influenced by betting volume so that a selection receiving a high volume of liquidity may have the odds for it cut. In 2006, there were news reports that the only female odds compiler in the United Kingdom was a woman called Helen Jacob of Sky Betting and Gaming Sky Bet . ref McRae, Alex 29 June 2006 . http www.independent.co.uk student career planning getting job i want your job odds compiler 405831.html I Want Your Job Odds Compiler . The Independent . Retrieved 26 August 2010. ref ref http www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk jaynedawson Odds job woman.1563621.jp Odds job woman . Yorkshire Evening Post . 14 June 2006. Retrieved 26 August 2010 ... more details
Infobox Software name Harmony Compiler logo screenshot Image PDP music manuscript screen.png 100px alt part of a music manuscript caption Manuscript, ftp publications.ai.mit.edu ai publications pdf AIM 107.pdf Music Compiler PDF author Peter Samson developer released 1960, 2006 latest release version latest release date latest preview version latest preview date operating system platform PDP 1 language genre Music license website http www.computerhistory.org pdp 1 PDP 1 Restoration Project Harmony Compiler was written by Peter Samson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT . The compiler was designed to encode music for the PDP 1 and built on an earlier program Samson wrote for the TX 0 computer. Image TX 0 music text screen.png left thumbnail 80px alt screenshot of music on a TX 0 http www.bitsavers.org bits MIT tx 0 music text musicx eng.txt TX 0 music Jack Dennis noticed and had mentioned to Samson that the sound on or off state of the TX 0 s speaker could be enough to play music. ref name Levy gutenberg no 729 name Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy . http www.gutenberg.org catalog world readfile?pageno 24&fk files 36095 p. 24 ref They succeeded in building a WYSIWYG program for one voice before or by 1960. ref name musicx eng cite web title MUSIC X date 28 May 1960 url http www.bitsavers.org bits MIT tx 0 music text musicx eng.txt accessdate 2006 07 05 ref For the PDP 1 which arrived at MIT in September 1961, Samson designed the Harmony Compiler which synthesizes four voices from input in a text based notation. Although it created music in many genres, it was optimized for baroque music. PDP 1 music is merged from four channels and played back in stereo. Notes are on pitch and each has an undertone. The music does not stop for errors. Mistakes are greeted with a message from the typewriter s red ribbon, To err is human, to forgive divine ... of software es Harmony Compiler ... more details
JAL Just Another Language is a Pascal programming language Pascal like programming language and compiler that generates executable code for PIC microcontroller s. It is a free format language with a compiler that runs on Linux, MS Windows and MS DOS OSX support . It is configurable and extendable through the use of libraries and can even be combined with PIC assembly language. History JAL was originally created by Wouter van Ooijen and released as free software under the GNU General Public License in 2003. In 2006, Stef Mientki initiated the development of a new version, JALV2, which was programmed by Kyle York and beta tested by an international user group. ref Beta testing by Bert van Dam, Sunish Isaac, Dave Lagzdin, Javier Martinez, Stef Mientki, Wouter van Ooijen, Michael Reynolds, Andr Steenveld, Joep Suijs, Vasile Surducan, and Michael Watterson ref Sample code JAL 2.3 include 16f877 bert define the variables var byte resist define the pins pin a0 direction input variable resistor pin d7 direction input switch pin c2 direction output pwm led enable pulse width modulation PWM init frequency true, true forever loop convert analog on a0 to digital resist ADC read low res 0 run measurement through flash memory program eeprom write 2000,resist program eeprom read 2000,resist run measurement through data memory data eeprom write 10,resist data eeprom read 10,resist if the switch is pressed return random value if pin d7 high then resist random byte end if send resistance to PC serial sw write resist delay 100ms 1 set actual PWM duty cycle PWM Set DutyCycle resist, resist end loop References references External links http www.casadeyork.com jalv2 JALv2 home page Category Procedural programming languages Category Programming languages created in 2003 es JAL compilador fr JAL compiler nl Just Another Language sv Just another language ... more details
No footnotes date April 2009 Compiler optimization is the process of tuning the output of a compiler ... for minimizing the Energy conservation power consumed by a program. Compiler optimization is generally ... . In practice, factors such as the programmer s willingness to wait for the compiler to complete its task place upper limits on the optimizations that a compiler implementor might provide. Optimization ... with the same arguments, the compiler can immediately infer that the function s result need be computed ... programming concepts loops, objects, structures are independent of the machine targeted by the compiler ... a register value to a constant. A less obvious way is to XOR a register with itself. It is up to the compiler ... some of these machine dependent factors, so that a single piece of compiler code can be used to optimize different machines just by altering the machine description parameters. GNU Compiler Collection GCC is a compiler which exemplifies this approach. The architecture of the target CPU Number of Central ... of cache collisions even in an unfilled cache. Cache Memory transfer rates These give the compiler ... is compiled to be used on one or a few very similar machines, with known characteristics, then the compiler ... s, for which special parallelizing compiler s are employed. Embedded system s These are a common case ... than as fast as possible, so code caching might be disabled, along with compiler optimizations that require it. Common themes To a large extent, compiler optimization techniques have the following ... precise information is better The more precise the information the compiler has, the better it can ... with minimal computational overhead overhead can be used by a Just in time compilation JIT compiler ... often share code for subroutine set up and sometimes tail recursion. ref name keil Cx51 Compiler ... call instructions to access low memory. A compiler can save space by using these small calls in the main ... applications such as scientific code. Bounds checking elimination allows the compiler to safely remove ... more details
SPITBOL Sp eedy I mplemen t ation of SNO BOL is a compiler compiled implementation of the SNOBOL SNOBOL4 programming language language . Originally targeted for the IBM System 360 and System 370 family of computer s, it has now been ported to most major microprocessors including the SPARC . It was created by Robert Dewar and Ken Belcher, who were then at the Illinois Institute of Technology . Prior to the development of SPITBOL, SNOBOL4 was thought to be slow, random access memory memory intensive, and impossible to compile due to its dynamic nature. While delayed name binding binding prevents everything from being determined at compile time, SPITBOL is very clever about making decisions as early as possible. SNOBOL4 programs running under SPITBOL are amazingly fast. Notable is the SPITBOL garbage collection computer science garbage collector which runs extremely well under the most constrained conditions. Recent versions of the SPITBOL compiler are available. Since 2001 the source code for the original SPITBOL 360 compiler has been made available under the GNU General Public License . ref http www.snobol4.com spitbol360 Spitbol 360 source and Documentation ref MACRO SPITBOL is an implementation of SPITBOL written in the 1970s by Robert B. K. Dewar and Anthony P. McCann. ref cite journal title MACRO SPITBOL a SNOBOL4 Compiler author Robert B. K. Dewar and Anthony P. McCann journal Software Practice and Experience volume 7 pages 95 113 year 1977 ref MACRO SPITBOL is coded in MINIMAL, an assembly language for an abstract machine. The instruction set is carefully defined to allow some latitude in its implementation, so that hardware operations favorable to string processing can be exploited. ref cite book title MINIMAL A Machine Independent Assembly Language first1 Robert B. K. last1 Dewar first2 Anthony P. last2 McCann publisher Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences ... 17, 2009. References references DEFAULTSORT Spitbol Compiler Category Compilers Category Pattern ... more details
A silicon compiler is a software system that takes a user s specifications and automatically generates an integrated circuit IC . The process is sometimes referred to as hardware compilation . Silicon compilation takes place in three major steps Convert a Hardware description language hardware description language such as Verilog or VHDL or FpgaC into logic typically in the form of a netlist . Place equivalent logic gate s on the IC. Silicon compilers typically use standard cell libraries so that they do not have to worry about the actual integrated circuit layout and can focus on the placement. Routing the standard cells together to form the desired logic. Silicon compilation was first described in 1979 by David L. Johannsen, under the guidance of his thesis adviser, Carver Mead . ref name Johannsen Johannsen, D. L., Bristle Blocks A Silicon Compiler, Proceedings 16th Design Automation Conference, 310 313, June 1979. ref Johannsen, Mead, and Edmund K. Cheng subsequently founded Silicon Compilers Inc. SCI in 1981. Edmund Cheng designed an Ethernet Data Link Controller chip ref name Cheng Edmund K. Cheng, The Design of an Ethernet Data Link Controller Chip , 26th IEEE Computer Society International Conference, COMPCON Spring 83, San Francisco, Feb 25 Mar 3, 1983, pp. 157 160. ref in 1981 1982 using structured design methodology, in order to drive the software and circuit library development at SCI. The project went from concept to chip specification in 3 months, and from chip specification to tape out in 5 months. Fabricated using a 3 micrometre micron NMOS process, the chip measured 50,600 square mils in die area, and was being marketed and manufactured in volume production by 1983 under license from SCI. John Wawrzynek at Caltech used some of the earliest silicon compilers in 1982 as part of the Yet Another Processor Project YAPP ref Silicon compilers and foundries will usher ... within one year. ref name Johnson Silicon compiler lets systems engineers design their own VLSI chips ... more details
communication between .NET and the Phalanger compiler. It s based on duck typing and provides a way ... safe way date 2007 04 30 ref In December 2008, Jadu announced that it has made the compiler available ... title DEVSENSE support publisher DEVSENSE ref for Phalanger compiler and related projects ... links http www.php compiler.net Phalanger PHP compiler blog http support.devsense.com viewforum.php ... http wiki.php compiler.net Wiki site for Phalanger PHP compiler http phalanger.codeplex.com Phalanger ... more details
Bartok is an optimizing compiler and managed code managed runtime library runtime system for Common Intermediate Language which List of CLI languages .NET languages compile to , being developed by Microsoft Research . It aims to be efficient enough to be usable for writing operating system s. It provides services such as automatic memory management and garbage collection computer science garbage collection , Thread computing threading , and marshalling data to and from native code , as well as verification of CIL code. Bartok is written in C Sharp programming language C , including the garbage collector. Bartok is being used by Microsoft Research for the implementation of Singularity operating system Singularity , a highly dependability dependable operating system written almost entirely in managed code . Bartok allows various implementations of the garbage collector, Base Class Library base class library and other components to be chosen at runtime on a per application basis. This feature is being used to write the different components of Singularity Kernel computer science kernel , device driver s, and Application software applications each using a separate class library that exposes functionality required by and optimized for the specific usage. References http research.microsoft.com act Microsoft Research Microsoft Research Category Microsoft initiatives Category Microsoft Research programming software stub ... more details
Image FlagShipLogoByMultisoft.png right 190px FlagShip is both Object oriented programming object oriented and Procedural programming procedural programming language , based on the xBase language dialect and conventions. FlagShip is available for and is cross computer compatibility compatible to different computer platforms, such as Linux , Unix and Microsoft Windows . As a true compiler , it translates the very popular database 4GL xBase source code to native 32 bit or 64 bit executables , using the same source code and databases . Recent history The first FlagShip version was introduced by multisoft Datentechnik GmbH in 1992 to port Clipper programming language Clipper , dBASE III , FoxBase and FoxPro 2 FoxPro applications to different operating systems , i.e. SCO Unix , IBM AIX , Sun Solaris , HP UX , Siemens SINIX and many other Unix systems. In 1995 also Linux ports became available. In 2002, Visual FlagShip abbreviated as VFS was announced for Linux , and in 2004 additionally for 32 64 bit based Microsoft Windows operating systems. The current VFS product line covers all common 32 bit and 64 bit operating systems Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Server 2008 . Programming Image FlagShip environment 800px.png thumb right FlagShip environment br br Executing an application, br including the embedded br source code debugger FlagShip is a programming and development tool. As with other compilers , it is designed mainly for professional software developers. But because of its simple User interface interface , it is also perfectly suitable for semi professionals and advanced computer users, who need to create database applications with minimal programming effort. Thanks to its full Clipper compatibility, it is also best suited for porting already available DOS applications to nearly any Unix, Linux or MS Windows systems. There is no learning curve if you are already familiar with any xBase dialect, like dBase, FoxBase, FoxPro, Clipper, Visual Objects etc. There ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2006 The Design of an Optimizing Compiler Elsevier Science Ltd , 1980, ISBN 0444001581 , by William Wulf , Richard K. Johnson, Charles B. Weinstock, Steven O. Hobbs, and Charles M. Geschke, was published in 1975 by Elsevier. It describes the BLISS programming language BLISS compiler for the PDP 11 , written at Carnegie Mellon University in the early 1970s. The compiler ran on a PDP 10 and was one of the first to produce well optimized code for a minicomputer. Because of its elegant design and the quality of the generated code, the compiler and book remain classics in the compiler field. Although the original book has been out of print for many years, a print on demand version remains available from University Microfilms International . DEFAULTSORT Design Of An Optimizing Compiler Category Computer programming books Category Compilers Category 1975 books Compu book stub ... more details
Merge to The Portland Group date June 2011 The Common Compiler Feedback Format is an XML schema defined by The Portland Group for use in benchmarking and debugging optimizing compiler s. ref http www.pgroup.com resources ccff.htm how ref ref http developer.amd.com tools partners pages PGI resources.aspx ref It is available under an open source license for use by other entities, in an attempt to allow the standardization of similar functionality across multiple compiler tools. References reflist compu prog stub markup languages stub Category Compiling tools ... more details
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