Title: Modern Compiler Implementation in Java
Author: Andrew W.Appel and Jens Palsberg
Format: PDF
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This textbook describes all phases of a compiler: lexical analysis, parsing, abstract syntax, semantic actions,
intermediate representations, instruction selection via tree matching, dataflow analysis, graphcoloring register
allocation, and runtime systems. It includes good coverage of current techniques in code generation and register
allocation, as well as the compilation of functional and object-oriented languages, which is missing from most books.
The most accepted and successful techniques are described concisely, rather than as an exhaustive catalog of every
possible variant. Detailed descriptions of the interfaces between modules of a compiler are illustrated with actual Java
classes.
 
The first part of the book, Fundamentals of Compilation, is suitable for a one-semester first course in compiler
design. The second part, Advanced Topics, which includes the compilation of object-oriented and functional
languages, garbage collection, loop optimization, SSA form, instruction scheduling, and optimization for
cache-memory hierarchies, can be used for a second-semester or graduate course.
 
This new edition has been rewritten extensively to include more discussion of Java and object-oriented programming
concepts, such as visitor patterns. A unique feature is the newly redesigned compiler project in Java for a subset of
Java itself. The project includes both front-end and back-end phases, so that students can build a complete working
compiler in one semester.
 
Andrew W. Appel is Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He has done research and published
papers on compilers, functional programming languages, runtime systems and garbage collection, type systems, and
computer security; he is also author of the book Compiling with Continuations. He is a designer and founder of the
Standard ML of New Jersey project. In 1998, Appel was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing
Machinery for "significant research contributions in the area of programming languages and compilers" and for his
work as editor-in-chief (1993-97) of the ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, the
leading journal in the field of compilers and programming languages.

Jens Palsberg is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. His research interests are
programming languages, compilers, software engineering, and information security. He has authored more than 50technical papers in these areas and a book with Michael Schwartzbach, Object-oriented Type Systems. In 1998, he
received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, and in 1999, the Purdue
University Faculty Scholar award.

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