- Paperback: 796 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (22 Dec 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1405840358
- ISBN-13: 978-1405840354
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,473,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This classic book, known to professors, students, and developers worldwide as "the Dragon Book" is the bible of compiler design. It provides a thorough grounding in the theory and practice of compilers.
Now available online are new chapters from the forthcoming second edition. Authors Aho, Lam, Sethi and Ullman have written all new material to address the monumental changes in computing that have occurred since the last edition published in 1986, from high level languages (object-oriented programming) to computer architecture (RISC).
New chapters include:
Chapter 5 Syntax-Directed Translation
Chapter 6 Intermediate-Code Generation
Chapter 7 Object-Code Generation
Chapter 8 Run-Time Environments
Chapter 9 Machine-Independent Optimizations
Chapter 10 Instruction-Level Parallelism
Chapter 11 Optimizing for Parallelism and Locality
To see the online chapters, click here: www.aw.com/dragonbook.
From the Back Cover
This introduction to compilers is the direct descendant of the well-known book by Aho and Ullman, Principles of Compiler Design. The authors present updated coverage of compilers based on research and techniques that have been developed in the field over the past few years. The book provides a thorough introduction to compiler design and covers topics such as context-free grammars, fine state machines, and syntax-directed translation.
0201100886B04062001 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Begins gently but becomes overwhelming very quickly. Needs to be studied. More a textbook than a 'hobbyist' text. For full benefit the reader must be prepared to work hard at it, but then such is the nature of compilers. An excellent text, love it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is an absolute winner. People who complain that it is incoherent or poor generally havent studied it for long enough.
Compilers are a very technical subject, and it stands to reason that even with the best books, youre gonna have to read certain sections more than once to grasp the content.
Get this book in paperback if you can. Its much easier to flip through, which youll find yourself doing on a regular basis.
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Once again, I want to point out the title of the book: "Principles, Techniques and Tools".
I think there are two kinds of compilers books available today: "Principles and Theory centered" ones and "Modern Compilers design and implementation" ones.
One might wonder what's the difference between the two.
I think there are two kinds of compilers books available today: "Principles and Theory centered" ones and "Modern Compilers design and implementation" ones.
One might wonder what's the difference between the two.
The former kind is more suited for a course on theoretical aspects that lay the foundation of compiler construction. DFAs, NFAs and Regular expression along with relations and equivalence between the them; FSAs minimizations; grammars and Push-down FSAs in details, ambiguities and and how to cope with them; and so on.
This is what I mean for "theoretical aspects". And these topics are covered in great details in this book. Almost the same details they (the authors) placed on writing a more specific book as "Introduction to Automata Theory ...".
Same situation applies to principles on more application- oriented topics. Take the example of LR parsing. You can face the topic from a more theoretical side, dealing with details on bottom up parsing (still, it implies an in-depth knowledge of grammars theory), handles and (viable) prefixes, SLR or canonical LR or LALR parsers and techniques for the relative tables construction by hands (and for this, add a detailed and solid knowledge of Push-down FSAs along with grammars). By hands, at least, if principles are what matter in your course.
If you expect to find these topics (with this depth) in a book of the other kind, you might get mislead. As I did when I still had not clear this distinction, before I took the course.
The latter kind of books is more suited for a more pragmatic course. One where real, "modern" compilers are at hands, and probably written as homeworks. In this case, time being always limited in a university course, one (the instructor) will likely have to give up with those theoretical aspects (or just mention them) and focus on coding techniques and modern compiler studying. But ... perhaps, for these purposes books like Grune's "Modern Compiler Design", or Pittman's "Art of Compiler Design, The: Theory and Practice" or, at some degrees, Muchnick's "Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation" will be more suited.
Back to the LR parsing example, more pragmatic compilers design courses will (for time constraints) just have a glance on principles and spend a considerable time learning YACC. To do both things you would have to take a course on YACC alone (it requires time to exploit all of its advanced features, you can be sure of this).
All this said, once again: which is the best book ? The one that best fits your needs. And in fact, my needs were those of my course, which was completely centered on theoretical aspects. And for this course, the Dragon book (as it is better known since its cover) proved to be perfect, definitely no matter it was published on 1986: FSAs and grammars and their theory is (for all practical purposes) still the same since even before then.
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Published on 3 Oct 2008 by Jan Verhoeven
Well pitched Introduction to compilers
In my opinion this book is excelently pitched, it is interesting to read, and requires some thought to fully appriciate the implications of some parts of it, but it's not boring by... Read more
Published on 29 Feb 2004 by A W
This book is overrated.
I don't know why this book got such good reviews - in my opinion it is simply NOT GOOD. I think it would be very helpful to people who already know some things about compilers -... Read more
Published on 20 April 1999
so important for student in computer engineering to read it.
congratulations, to that good work , but, i need answers to exercises of the book, it will help so much in understanding the book.
Published on 24 April 1998
The Dragon is the standard text but....
"The Dragon" is the standard text on compiler theory and practices, and a must to have in your library if you are into compiler writing. Read more
Published on 15 Jan 1998
The best compiler writer reference book
This is simply the BEST reference book for compiler writers. The authors did an excellent work writing this book; all the features of a compiler are explained in depth. Read more
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