BURS

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.

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.

External links

• http://www.stratego-language.org/Transform/BURG - short description of BURG including additional references to BURS and BURG