acmqueue | september-october 2019 1programming languagesC
ompilers are a necessary technology to turn
high-level, easier-to-write code into efficient
machine code for computers to execute. Their
sophistication at doing this is often overlooked.
You may spend a lot of time carefully consideringalgorithms and fighting error messages but perhaps not
enough time looking at what compilers are capable of
doing.This article introduces some compiler and code
generation concepts, and then shines
