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Re:The dragon compiler book (2nd edition) is a great book by fargle on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @11:36PM (#36147329)
seconded.

so a lot of people say a lot of things. i like chapters 1-5 just as much as the rest, btw. it's objectively a great book, written by objectively great developers and computer scientists.

is it the best to learn from today? who can say.

you might also say we should not start the education for structural engineering by studying the Brooklyn bridge either.

but, so here we are.

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Re:The dragon compiler book (2nd edition) is a great book by kaba0 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @01:32AM (#36147883)
But as mentioned, not even the rest of the book is relevant for compilers without SSA, so I don’t think your bridge example is relevant.
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Re:The dragon compiler book (2nd edition) is a great book by jobhdez on Thursday June 01, 2023 @03:23AM (#36148405)
The book introduces three address code which is similar to ssa
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Re:The dragon compiler book (2nd edition) is a great book by jobhdez on Thursday June 01, 2023 @03:22AM (#36148403)
Yea the authors of the book won a Turing award a few years ago.
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