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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.
author	Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date	Sun, 30 Mar 2014 10:39:19 -0400
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