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The book details the development of compiler technology for the Warp machine, a high-performance systolic array capable of executing 10 million floating-point operations per second. Under H. T. Kung's guidance, Warp evolved from a prototype to a commercial product, showcasing the viability of scalable architectures for computation-intensive tasks. It highlights the challenges of creating an optimizing compiler that accommodates fine-grained parallelism and the unique VLIW instruction set of its processors. The success of Warp paved the way for the iWarp project, enhancing parallel computing capabilities.

This is an introduction to compiler design and covers topics such as context-free grammars, fine state machines, and syntax-directed translation.

Mathematical preliminaries; An introduction to compiling; Elements of language theory; Theory of translation; General parsing methods; One-pass no backtrack parsing; Limited backtrack parsing algorithms