[TUHS] Re: Multiflow Compiler

[Luther Johnson <luther.johnson@makerlisp.com>]

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You are correct. I had (and read !), that book, but I had obviously
forgotten the author. I later worked with someone who also had Josh
Fisher as his advisor, so that's where my lossy memory name substitution
came from. Thank you for the correction !

I enjoyed that book when I read it.

On 04/02/2024 03:55 PM, Paul McJones wrote:
>> You can always read Josh Fisher's book on the "Bulldog" compiler, I
>> believe he did this work at Yale.
>
> Are you thinking of John Ellis’s thesis:
>
>     Bulldog: A Compiler for VLIW Architectures
>
>     John R. Ellis
>     February 1985
>     http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr364.pdf
>
>
> Fisher was Ellis’s advisor. The thesis was also published in ACM’s
> Doctoral Dissertation Award:
>
>     https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262050340/bulldog/
>
>
> I believe Ellis still has a tape with his thesis software on it, but I
> don’t know if he’s been able to read it.
>


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