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1 % $Log: abstract.tex,v $2 % Revision 1.1 93/05/14 14:56:25 starflt3 % Initial revision4 %5 % Revision 1.1 90/05/04 10:41:01 lwvanels6 % Initial revision7 %8 %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 on11 %% the abstract page will be generated by the abstractpage environment. This12 %% file should be \input (not \include 'd) from cover.tex.13 In this thesis, I designed and implemented a compiler which performs14 optimizations that reduce the number of low-level floating point operations15 necessary for a specific task; this involves the optimization of chains of16 floating point operations as well as the implementation of a ``fixed'' point17 data type that allows some floating point operations to simulated with integer18 arithmetic. The source language of the compiler is a subset of C, and the19 destination language is assembly language for a micro-floating point CPU. An20 instruction-level simulator of the CPU was written to allow testing of the21 code. A series of test pieces of codes was compiled, both with and without22 optimization, to determine how effective these optimizations were.