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Re: "Documentation by paper"
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: Peter Barada <peter at the-baradas dot com>
- Cc: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu, paolo dot bonzini at polimi dot it, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 10:06:27 -0700
- Subject: Re: "Documentation by paper"
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <20040203164801.62EB4990D5@baradas.org>, Peter Barada writes:
>Another possiblity is to have one file that has the definition of
>terms, as well as bibliography entries for the papers and books that
>the algorithms were derived from. That way if someone(like me who
>took his last compiler course twenty years ago using the dragon book)
>wanted to learn more about GCC and especially its optimizers, they could
>use the bibliography as a guide to the relavent papers and books.
Yup. Though again wikipedia is probably a better solution for that
problem as well :-)
You can look up SSA, dominator, and a variety of other common terms and get
reasonably concise definitions.
Having a bibliography is definitely a good thing, particularly since I want
to see us working more with well known, published algorithms rather than
cobbling together our own from scratch.
Jeff