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A Portable Machine-Independent Global Optimizer (1983) [pdf]

• tjalfi 5y ago
  This is Fred Chow's PhD thesis; it was used as the basis for the MIPSPro compilers that was later open sourced as Open64[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open64
  • boulos 5y ago
    And Open64 was the basis for nvcc (not sure if it still is anymore).
    • CalChris 5y ago
      "NVIDIA's CUDA Compiler (NVCC) is based on the widely used LLVM open source compiler infrastructure." https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-llvm-compiler https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-llvm-compiler
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• nielsbot 5y ago
  Is this a seminal work? Wondering how much of LLVM is built on this work. (LLVM has a optimizer that works on machine-independent IR, right?)
  • CalChris 5y ago
    LLVM was done much later in 2003 at the University of Illinois. More importantly LLVM has its own IR, LLVM IR, which is SSA-based. SSA was proposed in 1988 and Chow's work is from 1983.
    • gumby 5y ago
      We started putting SSA into gcc in the early 90s.