annotate thesis/aux/mitthesis/abstract.tex @ 566:b9b8567c14ee
final fixes; preparing to print final thesis.
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Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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5 % Revision 1.1 90/05/04 10:41:01 lwvanels
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9 %% The text of your abstract and nothing else (other than comments) goes here.
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13 In this thesis, I designed and implemented a compiler which performs
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14 optimizations that reduce the number of low-level floating point operations
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15 necessary for a specific task; this involves the optimization of chains of
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16 floating point operations as well as the implementation of a ``fixed'' point
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17 data type that allows some floating point operations to simulated with integer
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18 arithmetic. The source language of the compiler is a subset of C, and the
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19 destination language is assembly language for a micro-floating point CPU. An
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20 instruction-level simulator of the CPU was written to allow testing of the
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21 code. A series of test pieces of codes was compiled, both with and without
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22 optimization, to determine how effective these optimizations were.
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