Winter 2013, CS 142 (b) Schedule

Date	Lectures	Presentation Slides	Notes
Week 1. Parsing bytecode
Jan. 8 (Tue)	Lecture 1: Overview of the project and introduction of the .class file layout	Class overview	The class file format
Jan. 10 (Thur)	No lecture -- working on the project
Week 2-3. Building a Java interpreter
Jan. 15 (Tue)	Lecture 2: What is a Java interpreter and how to implement it?	Building a Java interpreter	Java bytecode instruction listing
Jan. 17 (Thur)	No lecture -- working on the project
Jan. 22 (Tue)	No lecture -- working on the project
Jan. 24 (Thur)	No lecture -- working on the project
Week 4- 5. Building SSA
Jan. 29 (Tue)	Lecture 3: What is SSA and how to compute it?	Building an SSA intermediate representation	SSA form Cytron et al. TOPLAS paper
Jan. 31 (Thur)	No lecture -- working on the project
Feb. 5 (Tue)	No lecture -- working on the project
Feb. 7 (Thurs)	No lecture -- working on the project
Week 6-7. Developing SSA-based optimizations
Feb. 12 (Tue)	Lecture 4: Dataflow optimization I --- liveness analysis and register allocation	Register allocation	X86 registers Register allocation via coloring A good summary of register allocation techniques
Feb. 14 (Thurs)	No lecture -- working on the project
Feb. 19 (Tue)	Lecture 5: Dataflow optimization II --- constant propagation	Constant propagation
Feb. 21 (Thurs)	No lecture -- working on the project
Week 8-9. Generating X86 machine code
Feb. 26 (Tue)	Lecture 6: Assembler	Code generation	Intel Software Developer’s Manual
Feb. 28 (Thurs)	No lecture -- working on the project
Mar. 5 (Tue)	No lecture -- working on the project
Mar. 7 (Thurs)	No lecture -- working on the project
Week 10. Project Demo Week
Mar. 12 (Tue)	Project Demo (I)
Mar. 14 (Thurs)	Project Demo (II)

Acknowledgement: this webpage was adapted from Prof.  Feng Qin's CSE 755 schedule page at Ohio State.