SSA is Functional Programming (1998) [pdf]

Re:SSA is Functional Programming (1998) [pdf] by chubot on Sunday January 13, 2019 @01:42AM (#18895477)

I remember her from the provocative comments in the interview quoted here. She said the C language was horrible for the the field of optimizing compilers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15581319

By 1960, we had a long list of amazing languages: Lisp, APL, Fortran, COBOL, Algol 60. These are higher-level than C. We have seriously regressed, since C developed. C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine.

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Re:SSA is Functional Programming (1998) [pdf] by pjmlp on Sunday January 13, 2019 @05:13AM (#18896024)

To build on top of this. Here is the PL.8 paper, the PL/I variant that IBM used for their RISC research.

"An overview of the PL.8 compiler"

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.453...

An optimizing compiler that is pretty much LLVM in 1982.

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