Introduction to Erlang & HiPE
- Chapters 1-5 from the Armstrong et al. Erlang book. [1]
- Erik Johansson, Mikael Pettersson, and Konstantinos Sagonas. HiPE: A High Performance Erlang System. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming, Sept. 2000.[2]
Virtual Machines and Implementation of Interpreters
- Stephan Diehl, Pieter Hartel, and Peter Sestoft. Abstract machines for programming language implementation. In Future Generation Computer Systems, 16(7):739-751, May 2002. [3]
- Information on threaded code, on the speed of threading on various processors, the information on threaded emulators for Prolog and the information on the GNU C Compiler's labels as values extension. [4]
Garbage Collection
- Chapter 13 from the Appel Tiger compiler book. [5]
- Paul Wilson. Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques. Read only Sections 1, 2, 3.1-3.3, 4.1-4.3, 4.5-4.7, 8, and 9. [6]
Register Allocation
Read Sections 1-3.3 from the (currently draft) paper Experimental evaluation and improvements to linear scan register allocation.
Program Analysis and Optimization
Material will be added here
Foundations of Dataflow Analysis
Material will be added here
Loop & Cache Optimizations
Material will be added here
Programming Language/System Design
- Richard P. Gabriel ``Lisp: Good News, Bad News. How to Win Big'', 1993.
- Eric S. Raymond ``The Cathedral and the Bazaar'', 1999.
(get the paper there and if you are interested read all other material on that homepage). - Guy L. Steel Jr. ``Growing a Language'', (final version appears in Journal of Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation (Kluwer) 12(3):221-236, October 1999.)
- Rob Pike. ``System Software Research is Irrelevant'', February 2000. Position talk.
- William Pugh. ``Is Code Optimization Research Relevant?'', 2001. Position talk.