This section contains selected lecture notes. Audio and video lectures from a previous semester can be found in the 6.035 Fall 2005 Lecture Notes section.
| SES # | TOPICS | LECTURE NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | (PDF) |
| 2 | Specifying languages with regular expressions and context-free grammars | (PDF) |
| 3 |
Introduction to shift-reduce parsing Parse table construction |
(PDF) (PDF) |
| 4 | Top-down parsing | (PDF) |
| 5 | Intermediate formats | (PDF) |
| 6 | Semantic analysis | (PDF) |
| 7 | Unoptimized code generation | (PDF) |
| 8 | Unoptimized code generation (cont.) | (PDF) |
| 9 | Introduction to program analysis and optimization | (PDF) |
| 10 | Introduction to dataflow analysis | (PDF) |
| 11-12 | Foundations of dataflow analysis | (PDF) |
| 13 | Introduction to code optimization: instruction scheduling | (PDF) |
| 14 | Loop optimizations: instruction scheduling | (PDF) |
| 15 | More loop optimizations | (PDF) |
| 16 | Register allocation | (PDF) |
| 17 | Parallelization | (PDF) |
| 18 | Memory optimization | ( PDF - 2.5MB) |
| 19 | Putting it all together | |
| 20 | Discussion of research projects in compilers |