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   by dlo 16y ago

   I started picking at Muchnick. From the look of it, it is almost all back-end stuff. mouth waters
2. 212.▲
   by dlo 16y ago

   IMO, the format of this book makes sense for the context it was intended for: Stanford's course on optimizations and program analysis, where the problem sets and reading provide theoretical knowledge and the projects -- hacking on the joeq
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   by dlo 16y ago

   I agree that its treatment of SSA is scanty. Muchnick, which I have started poking at, is much more thorough: The Dragon Book does go into what SSA is, but it does not tell you how to compute it while Muchnick does. However, I imagine it mu
4. 214.▲
   by dlo 16y ago

   I definitely would not recommend starting from page 1. You can pick at it gradually. Personally, I've gravitated more toward the second half of the book where it gets far more interesting. (I have the 2nd edition, where coverage of the back
5. 215.▲
   by dlo 16y ago

   It is possible to skip the first half of the Dragon Book if you are not interested in front-end stuff. (I am not.) Chapters 8 and onward are far more interesting IMO. You will encounters topics such as SSA, data-flow analysis, points-to ana
6. 216.▲
   by dlo 16y ago

   This is a decent summary of some of the high points of the talk. http://blog.ezyang.com/2010/06/static-analysis-mozilla/
7. 217.▲
   by dlo 16y ago

   He didn't restrict himself intentionally. I don't think that was what the poster meant. Rather, the poster probably meant that Sridhar was forced into this restriction by not being very attractive to those in the top 20%: "Our company in In
8. 218.▲
   by dlo 16y ago

   If you like working on the compiler front-end, wait 'til you take a look at what happens in the back-end. Phenomenal.
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   by dlo 16y ago

   Thanks. I took the liberty of transcribing the latter part of that section. "We basically found that their background and references are the best predictor. You can't use them exclusively, but it's true: The best predictor of future perform
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    by dlo 16y ago

    I second that. A great cover letter won't be the sole reason you were hired for a job (or even a big reason), but it will be a big reason you were called in for the interview. And from my own experience, people who take the time to write a
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    by dlo 16y ago

    If you're pleased to see that paper there, you'll be even more pleased with the required reading for Stanford's security class. http://crypto.stanford.edu/cs155/syllabus.html
12. 222.▲
    by dlo 16y ago

    Are you watching the same thing I'm watching? "So I have a friend who teaches math at a different university, not at Stanford, and when you talk to him about his work and what he's really out to do, this friend of mine will — he's a math pr