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    1.12 +%% The text of your abstract and nothing else (other than comments) goes here.
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    1.16 +In this thesis, I designed and implemented a compiler which performs
    1.17 +optimizations that reduce the number of low-level floating point operations
    1.18 +necessary for a specific task; this involves the optimization of chains of
    1.19 +floating point operations as well as the implementation of a ``fixed'' point
    1.20 +data type that allows some floating point operations to simulated with integer
    1.21 +arithmetic.  The source language of the compiler is a subset of C, and the
    1.22 +destination language is assembly language for a micro-floating point CPU.  An
    1.23 +instruction-level simulator of the CPU was written to allow testing of the
    1.24 +code.  A series of test pieces of codes was compiled, both with and without
    1.25 +optimization, to determine how effective these optimizations were.