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Totally! Compiler development = Finite State Automaton + Push Down Automaton + Context Free Grammar + Intermediate representation + Static Analysis/Optimiation

Totally! Compiler development = Finite State Automaton + Push Down Automaton + Context Free Grammar + Intermediate representation + Static Analysis/Optimiation + Stack Machine + ... Hardware Architecture = Stack Machine/Turing Machine + electricity + creativity Stack Machine == Turing Machine Compiler development starts and ends with Turing Machines. Hardware architecture ends with Turing Machines operating at the speed of electricity through metal.

olewhalehunter 9y ago
There are alternatives to this mainstream style of computer architecture, such as dataflow or hybrid quantum-classical systems, which both require a very different kind of compiler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_architecture