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abstract first draft.
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:33:01 -0400
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rlm@421 13 In this thesis, I designed and implemented a compiler which performs
rlm@421 14 optimizations that reduce the number of low-level floating point operations
rlm@421 15 necessary for a specific task; this involves the optimization of chains of
rlm@421 16 floating point operations as well as the implementation of a ``fixed'' point
rlm@421 17 data type that allows some floating point operations to simulated with integer
rlm@421 18 arithmetic. The source language of the compiler is a subset of C, and the
rlm@421 19 destination language is assembly language for a micro-floating point CPU. An
rlm@421 20 instruction-level simulator of the CPU was written to allow testing of the
rlm@421 21 code. A series of test pieces of codes was compiled, both with and without
rlm@421 22 optimization, to determine how effective these optimizations were.