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Compilers CS143 Lecture 1 Instructor: Fredrik Kjolstad The slides in this course are designed by Alex Aiken, with modifications by Fredrik Kjolstad.

Learning outcomes Understand how compilers work Parsing, type-checking & inference, lowering, analysis, optimization, code generation. How to rewrite your code so that the compiler can do …

Compilers are fundamental to modern computing. They act as translators, transforming human-oriented programming languages into computer-oriented machine languages. To most users, …

why do we need compilers? • Compilers enable high performance and programming productivity • Old: programmers wrote in assembly language, architectures were simple (no pipelines, …

• Or, more precisely, how do we program a computer to understand and carry out a computation written as text in a file? The computer only knows 1’s & 0’s: encodings of instructions and …

LLVM Project, https://llvm.org/, is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. LLVM Core: a modern source- and target-independent optimizer Clang: an …