CS 6120

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CS 6120
Advanced Compilers

Course information provided by the 2020-2021 Catalog.

This is a hands-on course about implementing programming languages. It covers intermediate representations, classic optimization, runtime systems, and more advanced techniques such as parallelization, just-in-time compilation, and garbage collection. Course work consists of reading and discussing both classic and modern research papers and implementation projects based on the LLVM compiler infrastructure.


Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: CS 4120 or CS 5120.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: graduate students. 

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 21254 CS 6120   LEC 002

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    • MW Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Sampson, A

  • Instruction Mode: Online

    Restricted to PhD and MS students only. All others should add themselves to the waitlist during add/drop. Please see http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courseinfo/enrollment for more information.