The Design of an Optimizing Compiler

by William Wulf, Richard K. Johnson, Charles B. Weinstock

This book is concerned with the design and implementation of an optimizing compiler whose paramount goal is the production of extremely efficient object code, and presents both new and known techniques in the context of a specific real compiler and shows how thse techniques interact to produce high quality code.

165 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

William Allan Wulf

Reviews

[Nick Black]

Found the (apparently illegal) ebook laying around in my papers/ volume, and am going through this classic volume instead of doing more pertinent work, woo-hah.

[Mongo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting when it was published. Way out of date by now, although I have friends who still love it.