Title: Not a good general compiler book
Product review: I used this as one of three textbooks for an undergraduate compiler class I taught at MIT (the other two were the Dragon book and Muchnick). This one was universally considered the least useful. We used it principally as a guide to writing the lexical analyzer and parser, since our class also used JLex and CUP.After that initial stage, it walks through the construction of a compiler, but without much discussion of the range of design choices avaliable. The material on optimization is uninspiring.
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