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Engineering a Compiler 2nd Ed by Cooper & Torczon I used it to supplement my prescribed compiler construction textbook and it's incredibly useful! Also surpris

Engineering a Compiler 2nd Ed by Cooper & Torczon I used it to supplement my prescribed compiler construction textbook and it's incredibly useful! Also surprisingly easy to read compared to some texts with a very math-heavy approach.

temporary_art 10y ago
Fun fact: these two are married and the cutest couple. They walk to Rice's Coffeehouse almost daily together talking about whatever it is compiler professors talk about.
marai2 10y ago
This book was my greatest buy ever! I once went to Fry's electronics to their book section - my expectation was to find only popular books there, when lo and behold, I see this book on compilers. I turn it over to look at the price tag, thinking I'll have to shell out something like $80 for the book and to my shock and surprise the tag says,... wait for it... $0.01 That's right one cent! At first I think this is some kind of prank and somebody peeled off a price sticker from some discounted stale candy or something and stuck it on this book. I'm of half a mind to see if I can buy slip this book by the store checker and have them just scan the one cent price tag and not to a double take. But my concsience gets the better of me and I walk up to a store clerk point out the one cent price tag and ask them to do a real price check so I can find out the fair price. The clerk looks up the book in his computer and says, nope that is the correct price in their system! So I bought "Engineering a Compiler 2nd Ed. By Cooper & Torczon" for $0.01! My greatest book buy ever!
- DearVolt 10y ago
  Wow, that's awesome! I picked up mine second hand at a textbook distributor for the equivalent of about $30. For anyone interested in other books on compiler construction, I would recommend these: - "The Basics of Compiler Design" by Torben Mogensen - "Modern Compiler Implementation in C" by Andrew Appel (ML and Java versions available too) - "Modern Compiler Design" by Grune, Bal et al. The Dragon Book is obviously infamous for this topic, but I would recommend covering at least two slightly more basic texts before taking it on.
  - nextos 10y ago
    Try Principles of Program Analysis by Nielson & Nielson. Uber hardcore and beautiful approaches to static analysis and optimization, on a very general mathematical framework.

temporary_art 10y ago

Fun fact: these two are married and the cutest couple. They walk to Rice's Coffeehouse almost daily together talking about whatever it is compiler professors talk about.

marai2 10y ago

This book was my greatest buy ever! I once went to Fry's electronics to their book section - my expectation was to find only popular books there, when lo and behold, I see this book on compilers. I turn it over to look at the price tag, thinking I'll have to shell out something like $80 for the book and to my shock and surprise the tag says,... wait for it... $0.01 That's right one cent! At first I think this is some kind of prank and somebody peeled off a price sticker from some discounted stale candy or something and stuck it on this book. I'm of half a mind to see if I can buy slip this book by the store checker and have them just scan the one cent price tag and not to a double take. But my concsience gets the better of me and I walk up to a store clerk point out the one cent price tag and ask them to do a real price check so I can find out the fair price. The clerk looks up the book in his computer and says, nope that is the correct price in their system! So I bought "Engineering a Compiler 2nd Ed. By Cooper & Torczon" for $0.01! My greatest book buy ever!

DearVolt 10y ago
Wow, that's awesome! I picked up mine second hand at a textbook distributor for the equivalent of about $30. For anyone interested in other books on compiler construction, I would recommend these: - "The Basics of Compiler Design" by Torben Mogensen - "Modern Compiler Implementation in C" by Andrew Appel (ML and Java versions available too) - "Modern Compiler Design" by Grune, Bal et al. The Dragon Book is obviously infamous for this topic, but I would recommend covering at least two slightly more basic texts before taking it on.
- nextos 10y ago
  Try Principles of Program Analysis by Nielson & Nielson. Uber hardcore and beautiful approaches to static analysis and optimization, on a very general mathematical framework.