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For people considering it: working in compilers / developer tools is a great career. The programs are deterministic and have testsuites, the problems to solve are intellectually engaging and high-impact, the colleagues are friendly and reasonable, and the hours and pay are good.

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Tanya Lattner

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· Sep 10, 2018

Please help me get the word out about our Women in Compilers and Tools Workshop. If you have contacts at universities in the Bay Area, please let them know. Or send the info to internal company mailing lists. eventbrite.com/e/2018-llvm-fo

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Graydon Hoare

@graydon_pub

Sep 11, 2018

Step 1: maybe read a book or two on the rough theory, for orientation. Step 2: tinker around on a mid-sized open source one, fix a few little bugs, see if it suits your taste. Step 3: apply to a company that ships a compiler. (Apple is hiring, fwiw!)

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Do you have any book suggestions?

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Graydon Hoare

@graydon_pub

Sep 11, 2018

I haven't done an exhaustive comparison but I usually recommend starting with Appel (cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/), Scott (elsevier.com/books/programm) and Pierce (cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/).

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Graydon Hoare

@graydon_pub

Sep 11, 2018

For more detail, I recommend Harper (cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/pfpl.html) for types, Jones (cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/r) for GC, Levine for linkers (linker.iecc.com) and while I haven't read it, I've heard good things about Muchnick (goodreads.com/book/show/8879) for optimization and codegen.

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Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation by Steven S. Muchnick

Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation book. Read 5 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. From the Foreword by Susan L. Graham: Th...

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Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Sep 12, 2018

Kind of wish there were more resources out there for incremental and query driven compilation, but I guess folks are still figuring that stuff out. Bit hard to write a textbook yet!

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