Hpc Schedule

In the course we discuss the following topics (Chapters refer to ModernCompilerImplementationInML). The project entries in the schedule are steps in building the TigerCompiler.

Week 1

• Meeting 1 (29/10)
  • Introduction, CompilerArchitecture, TigerLanguage, StrategoLanguage (Chapter 1, Appendix A)
• Meeting 2 (2/11):
  • Translating Tiger to MIPS
  • Tiger Abstract Syntax, Assembly Code (Chapter 4)
  • Tiger Eval

• Project
  • ExtendTigerWithDoWhile

Week 2

• Meeting 3 (5/11)
  • Translation To Intermediate Representation (Chapter 7)
  • Tiger Typecheck (Chapter 5)
• Meeting 4 (9/11)
  • no meeting scheduled (voorlichting)

• Project
  • TranslateExpressionsToIntermediateRepresentation

Week 3

• Meeting 5 (12/11)
  • Instruction Selection (Chapter 9)
  • NielsJanssen
• Meeting 6 (16/11)
  • Canonical Form for Intermediate Representation (Chapter 8)
  • MarcelBroeken^?

• Project
  • IR2ASM: Instruction Selection for MIPS
  • CanonicalizeIR: canonicalize Intermediate Representation

Week 4

• Meeting 7 (19/11)
  • Translating Declarations (Chapters 5, 6, 7, 12)
  • MartinBravenboer
• Meeting 8 (23/11)
  • Loose ends in the basic compiler

• Project
  • Finish basic compiler
  • week 5-6: Polish and extend with optimizers

Week 5

• Meeting 9 (26/11)
  • Dataflow Analysis (Chapter 17)
  • PaulHagg
• Meeting 10 (30/11)
  • Register Allocation (Chapter 10, 11)
  • Jory van Zessen

Week 6

• Meeting 10 (3/12)
  • The Memory Hierarchy (Chapter 21)
  • Wessel Dankers
• Meeting 11 (7/12)
  • Loop Optimizations (Chapter 18)
  • RobVermaas

Week 7

• Meeting 11 (10/12)
  • Pipelining and Scheduling (Chapter 20)
  • AlanVanDam
• Meeting 11 (14/12)
  • Compiling Functional Programming Languages (Chapter 15)
  • Jory van Zessen, MartinBravenboer

Week 8

• Finish the TigerCompiler (See HpcProject)