Bulldog
by John R. Ellis · first published 1986
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Bulldog demonstrates that a symbiosis of a new Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) architectures and new compiling technology is practicable. VLIW architectures are reduced-instruction-set machines with a large number of parallel, pipelined functional unites but only a single thread of control. These machines offer the promise of an immediate order-of-magnitude increase in speed for general purpose scientific computing. However, a traditional compiler can't find enough parallelism in scientific programs to utilize a VLIW effectively. The Bulldog compiler described here uses several new com
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on “Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?” ↗The following is one of the most well written PhD dissertation I've read. Its all written in simple clear to understand words. Bulldog: A Compiler for VLIW Architectures by John R. Ellis http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr364.pdf
on “Bullshit.js” ↗John R. Ellis' doctoral thesis - Bulldog: A Compiler for VLIW Architectures (http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr364.pdf) is an example of excellent technical writing.
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