CS 6013 - Modern Compilers - Theory and Practice

Goal of the course: At the end of the course, students will have a fair understanding of some standard passes in a general purpose compiler. Students will have hands on experience on implementing a few program analyses and optimization techniques.

Time and Place: Mon (16:00-17:15), Wed (16:00-17:15), Slot - UoP. Class room: online.
Teacher : V. Krishna Nandivada
Office hours / Doubt sessions : Anytime.
TA : Prasoon Mishra (cs20s028@smail)
Office hours / Doubt sessions : Fix a time by sending an email.
Course outline.
Software, documentation and tools link is here.
Submission guidelines.
Discussion website is here (access restricted).
Texts:
- Book 1: Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation: Steven Muchnick, 1998.
- Book 2: Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools: A V Aho, Monical Lam, R Sethi, J D Ullman, 2005.
- Book 3: Principles of Program Analysis: Flemming Nielson, Hanne Riis Nielson, Chris Hankin, Springer, 2006.
- Book 4: Modern compiler implementation in Java, Second Edition, Andrew W. Appel, Jens Palsberg, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Book 5: The Java programming language, Arnold, Gosling and Holmes, Addison-Wesley, 2005. Also see the online manuals in the documentation section.
- Paper 0: The Fortran Automatic Coding system, Backus et al, 1957.
- Paper 1: A unified approach to program optimization: Gary A Kildall, 1973.
- Paper 2: Constant Propagation with conditional branches: Wegman and Zadeck.
- Paper 3: Interprocedural constant propagation: Callahan, Cooper, Kennedy and Torczon.
- Paper 4: Linear Scan Register Allocation: Poletto and Sarkar.
- Paper 5: Improved Bitwidth-aware Variable Packing: Nandivada and Barik, TACO 2013.
- Paper 6: Improved MHP Analysis: A Shankar, S S Chakraborty, and V K Nandivada, CC 2016.
- Paper 7: A loop transformation theory and an algorithm to maximize parallelism, Wolf and Lam, IEEE TPDS 1991.
- Paper 8: Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques, Paul R Wilson, 1992.

Slides for the Lectures:

Two LH. Introduction, overview of lexical and syntax analysis.
Two LH. JavaCC, Visitor Pattern and JTB.
Six LH. Symbol Table Creation and IR Generation, IR generation for OO languages.
Six LH. Data Flow Analysis, constant propagation, ~~conditional constant propagation~~.
Six LH. Control Flow Analysis and optimizations (forward dataflow analysis).
Four LH. Call graph construction, interprocedural constant propagation, function inlining (using CHA).
Eight LH. Alias and Points-to analysis for C and Java. Flow sensitive and insensitive analysis. Introduction to Escape Analysis. On the board teaching.
Eight LH. Dependence Analysis, Dependence Testing, overview of optimizations, loop optimizations.

Assignment	What?	Credit	Start date	Mid-Eval date	Due-date
P1	Refresh Scanning+Parsing	5%	24 Aug 2022	-	06 Sep 2022, 11:59PM
P2	IR Generation	5%	21 Sep 2022	27 Sep 2022	12 Oct 2022, 11:59PM
P3	Constant Propagation	10%	19 Oct 2022	25 Oct 2022	09 Nov 2022, 11:59PM
P4	Function Inlining	10%	10 Nov 2022	17 Nov 2022,	29 Nov 2022, 11:59PM
P5	Register Allocation	~~10%~~

Paper reading / presentation / critic: 10 marks. Papers' details: here.

Written Exams:

Quiz 1 exam (10%) on Sep 26 2022 (Mon), 16.00. Closed book, closed notes, closed neighbor.
Quiz 2 exam (10%) on Oct 31 2022 (Mon), 16.00. Closed book, closed notes, closed neighbor.
Final exam (30%+10%) on Dec 05 2022 (Wed), 16.00-19.00. Open book, Open notes, closed neighbor.

Last updated: Sat Aug 20 19:03:33 IST 2022