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| author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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| date | Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:57:01 -0400 |
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| 2 % Revision 1.1 93/05/14 14:56:25 starflt | |
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| 9 %% The text of your abstract and nothing else (other than comments) goes here. | |
| 10 %% It will be single-spaced and the rest of the text that is supposed to go on | |
| 11 %% the abstract page will be generated by the abstractpage environment. This | |
| 12 %% file should be \input (not \include 'd) from cover.tex. | |
| 13 In this thesis, I designed and implemented a compiler which performs | |
| 14 optimizations that reduce the number of low-level floating point operations | |
| 15 necessary for a specific task; this involves the optimization of chains of | |
| 16 floating point operations as well as the implementation of a ``fixed'' point | |
| 17 data type that allows some floating point operations to simulated with integer | |
| 18 arithmetic. The source language of the compiler is a subset of C, and the | |
| 19 destination language is assembly language for a micro-floating point CPU. An | |
| 20 instruction-level simulator of the CPU was written to allow testing of the | |
| 21 code. A series of test pieces of codes was compiled, both with and without | |
| 22 optimization, to determine how effective these optimizations were. |