cortex: thesis/aux/mitthesis/abstract.tex annotate

abstract first draft.

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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.

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