CS 6120

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CS 6120
Advanced Compilers

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

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. 

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2023FA, 2022SP, 2020FA

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one project.

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 19900 CS 6120   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Sampson, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19901 CS 6120   PRJ 601

  •  
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Sampson, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person