Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!mintaka!spdcc!esegue!compilers-sender From: anders@dit.lth.se (Anders Ardo) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Compilers taking advantage of architectural enhancements Keywords: design, optimize Message-ID: <1990Oct16.085249.13511@lth.se> Date: 16 Oct 90 08:52:49 GMT References: <1990Oct9> <3300194@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1990Oct12.230424.930@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <1689@seti.inria.fr> Sender: compilers-sender@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us Reply-To: anders@dit.lth.se (Anders Ardo) Organization: Dep. of Computer Engineering, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden Lines: 30 Approved: compilers@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us > In article <1990Oct12.230424.930@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>, > golds@fjcnet.GOV (Rich Goldschmidt) writes: > => Maybe this is naive or too futuristic, but is anyone working towards > => methods for automatically generating a compiler based on the architecture > => design? > > There already has been a HUGE amount of work, [including] > TWIG, BEG and Pagode (non-exhaustive list). ... Could you please give some references to these systems. > => [...] Chip designers might even take compilers into > => consideration in their designs :-). I fully agree. We have just embarked on a project which aims at integrating a VLSI design environment with compiler generation tools. This will enable us to rapidly generate and test complete system (including applications) either simulated or real hardware, thus enabling us to efficiently evaluate different design tradeoffs between hardware and software. -- Anders Ardo Tel: int+46 46 107522 Dept. of Computer Engineering fax: int+46 46 104714 University of Lund, P.O. Box 118 Internet: anders@dit.lth.se S-221 00 Lund, Sweden or anders%dit.lth.se@uunet.uu.net -- Send compilers articles to compilers@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us {ima | spdcc | world}!esegue. Meta-mail to compilers-request@esegue.