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It introduces many basic topics but doesnt go into a lot of depth in any of them
If you read the title engineering a compiler as codingbuilding a compiler you would be disappointed
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Their open mindedness ended when it came to optimization though
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I got the impression that the authors consider ssa static single assignment form to be the silver bullet of optimization
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In there defense they spend almost an entire chapter on how to do these conversions
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The only short coming of this book is that the entire optimization discussion is revolves around ssa form
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
So if youre looking for a learingbycoding book this is not for you but i have some recommendations at the end of this review in the latest paragraph
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If youre looking for a language design book i advice you to look at programming language pragmatics
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
There is no discussion whatsoever of this topic when they talk about things like dead code elimination
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The ssabased algorithm they present there has a first step of mark all the needed operations as needed but there is no discussion of what this means for writes to dereferenced pointers or the tradeoffs you face there e