Re: "Documentation by paper"

[Peter Barada <peter at the-baradas dot com>]

>If you really want to learn the basics, you could always look at slides 
>from todays compiler construction courses.
>
>I did a quick google search and found at least 5 nice sets of slides 
>that explain this stuff very well, some with bibliographies at the end 
>(and some with copies of the papers).

You have a URL?

>However, a bunch of compiler writers trying to keep an up to date 
>bibliography of seminal papers in compiler history seems like asking 
>for trouble.

That would be a detriment since instead of reflecting the algorithms used to
write the GCC optimizer passes, the bibliography would reflect the
current state of compiler writing.

Of course if the bibliogrphy gets *really* out of date, then its time
to visit the optimizer passes and update the code :-)

-- 
Peter Barada
peter@the-baradas.com