Modern Compiler Implementation in Java 2nd Edition

by Andrew W. Appel (Author), Jens Palsberg (Author)

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This textbook describes all phases of a compiler: lexical analysis, parsing, abstract syntax, semantic actions, intermediate representations, instruction selection via tree matching, dataflow analysis, graph-coloring register allocation, and runtime systems. It includes thorough coverage of current techniques in code generation and register allocation, and the compilation of functional and object-oriented languages. The most accepted and successful techniques are described and illustrated with actual Java^TM® classes. The first part is suitable for a one-semester first course in compiler design. The second part; which includes the compilation of object-oriented and functional languages, garbage collection, loop optimization, SSA form, instruction scheduling, and optimization for cache-memory hierarchies; can be used for a second-semester or graduate course. This new edition includes more discussion of Java and object-oriented programming concepts such as visitor patterns plus a new Mini-Java programming project. A unique feature is the newly redesigned compiler project in Java for a subset of Java itself. The project includes both front-end and back-end phases.

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"...fit[s] comfortably and usefully between cookbooks and encyclopedias on compilation...suitable for self-study." Computing Reviews

"A well-written book, which strictly adheres to a no-nonsense style." Computing Reviews

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The second edition features a redesigned compiler project in Java, for a subset of Java itself.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (October 21, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 501 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 052182060X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521820608
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.32 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.2 x 1.3 x 10.1 inches

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Andres Tovar Garcia-Rosell

Great book !

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2019

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A great book !

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Azfar M. Khandoker

the book is good...just go for the dragon book though

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2013

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this book does accomplish the task of introducing the complier concepts using java, but i still feel like the dragon book is a nice universal book that can be used for all compiler concepts

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Glenn Story

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2014

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Great content but teeny tiny figures making harder to read than it needs to be.

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Dieter

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2016

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Good introduction for theoretical understanding.

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Adam

Very good condition

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2013

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Pretty good book, also received it in good condition, would recommend the practice exercises because they are all pretty great!

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S. Gruner

Only good for Experienced Readers - No good for Beginners

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2006

For reasons of local tradition I am using this book in my Compiler Course in this semester. For students (and practioners) who already know the theory behind a compiler, this book is certainly a valuable help in actually implementing a compiler.

However, for readers who have little (or no) previous knowledge about compilers, this book seems rather hard to understand.

This is mainly because of its poor didactics. Definitions are not given precisely in Mathematical Notation - often "things are just somehow sloppily described" in a rather colloquial language which does not really help in understanding the concepts.

For example the important concept of FOLLOW-Set is only vaguely explained, and then "defined" only in terms of some cumbersome Algorithm to compute this set. Such a definition could have been presented much much clearer.

Moreover, there is no nice step-by-step concept: Again and again we find confusing side remarks and forward references to later chapters, which do not help in understanding the very chapter which I am just about to grasp.

For example, already in the first Introduction chapter, when the reader has not yet even learned the very basics of a compiler, one of the exercises is already: to fiddle around with some Java Code in order to make an Interpreter for an example of a little language!

Of course the book offers plenty of programming and code examples to play with, however I don't really appreciate this Learning-by-Trying approach promoted in this book.

Therefore I would recommend to study a more theoretical introductory textbook (like the famous "Dragon Book") first, and then, with the background knowledge from such other books, use the code examples from Appel's book to actually build a compiler.

With only this one book on compiler construction, the student would probably not be sufficiently well equipped.

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Daniel Doel

Mediocre at best

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2006

It's been quite some time since I read this book, and my tastes in languages have changed quite a bit since then, so it's possible that if I read this book today, I would have a different impression. However, I am doubtful that that would be the case, and as it stands, my memories of this book leave a bitter taste in my mouth.

The joke goes that "some programmers can write C/Fortran code in any language," and that is exactly the problem with this book. The compiler implemented within may compile correctly under javac, but it isn't implemented in a modular, object oriented way like one might expect when using such a language. Rather, the author seems to often use classes as little more than C structs, and methods as merely convenient ways of grouping together functions. I see now that the author also has a book on C compilers, and it wouldn't surprise me if the code herein was a direct port to Java, with as little redesign as possible.

I am certainly not an expert on compilers, and as I said, it's been quite some time since I read this book. The general information on compiling in this book might be useful, and I'll leave it to other people to make comments on that. However, if you are looking for a book that gives advice on what patterns work well when developing compilers, or what advantages an object oriented language might bring to the table in that arena, this is not the book you're looking for. This might teach you how to write a compiler that is, syntactically, Java, but it won't give you any insight on why you'd want to use Java over any other language.

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ClaytonBigsby

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2015

Loved it. Killed CS352 at Purdue!

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SONDEREGGER RODNEY

Very good compiler implementation book

Reviewed in Germany on April 22, 2014

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Step by step compiler explenation, Lexer, parser,semantic analysis, AST (Abstract Syntax Trees), instruction selextion, optimisation all is excellently explained.
Project building a full compiler is very helpfull to understand the different steps for
a compiler.

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David Ho

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on June 7, 2015

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