CS 744Advanced Compiler Design

Units: 0.50
Level: Graduate
Faculty: Mathematics
Subject: Computer Science

When it runs

Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Project-oriented course that covers optimizing compilers and the implementation of advanced programming language features. Topics include intermediate representations; data-flow, dependence, and alias analysis; optimizing transforms, register allocation, instruction scheduling; memory management, garbage collection, threads, concurrency; single and multiple inheritance, generics, templates, type inference.

Prerequisites

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Antirequisites

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Leads to

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CS 744 - Advanced Compiler Design (Spring 2011) Course website · Spring 2011 · plg.uwaterloo.ca · from Ondřej Lhoták’s site Remove
CS 744 Course Description | SCS | UW | Cheriton School of Computer Science Course website · cs.uwaterloo.ca · from Ondřej Lhoták’s site Remove

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