<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">You can always read Josh Fisher's book on the "Bulldog" compiler, I</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">believe he did this work at Yale.</span></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Are you thinking of John Ellis’s thesis:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>Bulldog: A Compiler for VLIW Architectures</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>John R. Ellis</div><div>February 1985</div><div><a href="http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr364.pdf">http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr364.pdf</a></div></blockquote><br><div>Fisher was Ellis’s advisor. The thesis was also published in ACM’s Doctoral Dissertation Award:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262050340/bulldog/">https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262050340/bulldog/</a></div></blockquote><br><div>I believe Ellis still has a tape with his thesis software on it, but I don’t know if he’s been able to read it.</div><div><br></div></body></html>