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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.