The UT-Austin TRIPS project will unveil their processor next Monday, and I take a look at what it looks like.

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This is really cool: Fran Allen, a founder of the field of program optimization and compiler analysis, will be the first woman to receive the Turing Award. More info, including a description of her accomplishments, is at the ACM press release.

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I’ve just put up the website for my current project (to be part of my Ph.D. dissertation work): LENS, a framework for program information manipulation that presents a uniform interface to selective user and automated queries about many types of program metrics, including success and diagnostic information about compiler optimizations and code generation. I’m not [...]

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I mentioned that I’d post about some of the papers I found interesting from this year’s PLDI conference. Disclaimer: for the most part this is based on reading the abstracts only, so this shouldn’t be considered a thorough review. Session one is Transactions. I will probably look through these, especially the first paper, “The Atomos [...]

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The technical program for PLDI 2006 is out now – there are certainly a lot of interesting papers in there. I’m looking through them now and will probably comment on a few of the ones I think are cool in another post. PLDI is traditionally a very competitive conference with an emphasis on experimental results, [...]

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