BURS

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BURS (bottom-up rewrite system) theory tackles the problem of taking a complex expression tree or intermediate language term and finding a good translation to machine code for a particular architecture. Implementations of BURS often employ dynamic programming to solve this problem.

BURS can also be applied to the problem of designing an instruction set for an application-specific instruction set processor.

[https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-540-70881-0_37 "BURS-Based Instruction Set Selection"]

by Dmitri Boulytchev

References

  • A. V. Aho, M. Ganapathi, and S. W. K. Tjiang. Code generation using tree matching and dynamic programming. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 11(4):491-516, October 1989.
  • Robert Giegerich and Susan L. Graham, editors. Code Generation - Concepts, Tools, Techniques. Workshops in Computing. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1992.