Optimizing compilers, which turn human-readable programming languages into the smallest, most efficient machine code possible, are among the most complex pieces of software ever written. Building a compiler is both science and black art and demands
steven s.muchnick具有丰富而广博的经验。他曾经是计算机科学教授,后来他将自己的知识和经验应用于编译器设计,成为两种计算机体系结构(惠普的pa-risc和sun的sparc)开发团队的核心成员,并担任这些系统的高级编译器设计与实现的领导人。他的研究和开发经验对于指导读者做出编译器设计决策极具价值