This page is intended to list all current compilers, compiler generators, interpreters, translators, tool foundations, etc.
Ada compilers[edit]
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ALGOL compilers[edit]
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BASIC compilers[edit]
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| Compiler |
Author |
Windows |
Unix-like |
Other OSs |
License type |
| BaCon |
Peter van Eerten |
No |
Yes |
Linux, OSX, Android |
Open Source |
| BAIL |
Studio 403 |
No |
Yes |
No |
Open Source |
| BBC Basic for Windows |
Richard T Russel |
Yes |
No |
No |
Shareware |
| BlitzMax |
Blitz Research |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Proprietary |
| Chipmunk Basic |
Ronald H. Nicholson, Jr. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Freeware |
| CoolBasic |
Spywave |
Yes |
No |
No |
Freeware |
| DarkBASIC |
The Game Creators |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
| DoyleSoft BASIC |
DoyleSoft |
Yes |
No |
No |
Open Source |
| FreeBASIC |
FreeBASIC Development Team |
Yes |
Yes |
DOS |
GPL |
| Gambas |
Benoît Minisini |
No |
Yes |
No |
GPL |
| GLBasic |
Dream Design Entertainment |
Yes |
Yes |
Linux, OSX, iOS, WinCE, Android, WebOS, Pandora |
Proprietary |
| Just BASIC |
Shoptalk Systems |
Yes |
No |
No |
Freeware |
| KBasic |
KBasic Software |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Open source |
| Liberty BASIC |
Shoptalk Systems |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
| MMBasic |
Geoff Graham |
Yes |
No |
Maximite,PIC32 |
Proprietary |
| NBasic |
SylvaWare |
Yes |
No |
No |
Freeware |
| PowerBASIC |
PowerBASIC, Inc. |
Yes |
No |
DOS |
Proprietary |
| PureBasic |
Fantaisie Software |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
| QB64 |
Galleon |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
LGPL |
| QuickBASIC |
Microsoft |
No |
No |
DOS |
Proprietary |
| RapidQ |
William Yu |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Freeware |
| Realbasic |
Real Software |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
| True BASIC |
True BASIC |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
| Visual Basic |
Microsoft |
Yes |
No |
DOS |
Proprietary |
Batch compilers[edit]
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C compilers[edit]
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| Compiler |
Author |
Microsoft Windows |
Unix-like |
Other OSs |
License type |
| AMPC |
Axiomatic Solutions Sdn Bhd |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
| Aztec C |
Manx Software Systems |
No |
No |
CP/M, CP/M-86, MS-DOS, Classic Mac OS |
Proprietary |
| Amsterdam Compiler Kit |
Andrew Tanenbaum and Ceriel Jacobs |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
BSD |
| CCS C Compiler |
CCS, Inc. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
| Ch |
SoftIntegration, Inc |
Yes |
Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Qnx |
Yes |
Freeware |
| Clang |
LLVM Project |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
BSD |
| CodeWarrior |
Metrowerks |
Yes |
Yes |
Classic Mac OS |
Proprietary |
| CParser/libFirm |
Matthias Braun, Christoph Mallon and Michael Beck |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
GPL |
| DeSmet-C |
C-Ware Corporation |
No |
No |
MS-DOS |
GPL |
| Digital Mars |
Digital Mars |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
| Dignus Systems/C |
Dignus, L.L.C |
Yes (host) |
Yes (host) |
Z/Architecture |
Proprietary |
| Edison Design Group |
Edison Design Group |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
| GCC C |
GNU Project |
MinGW, Cygwin |
Yes |
IBM mainframe, AmigaOS, VAX/VMS, RTEMS |
GPL |
| Hippo-C |
Hippopotamus Software, Haba Systems |
No |
No |
Classic Mac OS, Atari ST |
Proprietary |
| IAR C/C++ Compilers |
IAR Systems |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
| Interactive C |
KISS Institute for Practical Robotics |
Yes |
Unix, Mac OS X, Linux, IRIX, Solaris, SunOS |
No |
Freeware |
| LabWindows/CVI |
National Instruments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
| Lattice C |
Lifeboat Associates |
No |
Yes |
MS-DOS, OS/2, Commodore, Amiga, Atari ST, Sinclair QL |
Proprietary |
| lcc |
Chris Fraser and David Hanson |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Freeware (source code available for non-commercial use) |
| Mac C |
Consulair |
No |
No |
Classic Mac OS |
Proprietary |
| Mark Williams C |
Mark Williams Company |
Yes |
Coherent |
Yes |
Proprietary |
| Micro-C Compiler (mcc) |
Dunfield Development Services |
No |
No |
MS-DOS |
Freeware (source code available) |
| Micro C Compiler (mcc) |
Roshan Singh |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Freeware (source code available for non-commercial use) |
| MikroC Compiler |
Mikroelektronika |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
| MPW C |
Apple |
No |
No |
Classic Mac OS |
Proprietary |
| Neatcc |
Ali Gholami Rudi |
No |
Yes |
No |
BSD |
| Nwcc |
Nils Weller |
No |
Yes |
No |
BSD |
| Open64 |
AMD SGI Google HP Intel Nvidia PathScale Tsinghua University and others |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
GPL |
| Open Watcom |
Sybase and SciTech Software |
Yes |
Linux |
OS/2, MS-DOS |
Sybase Open Watcom Public License |
| Orange C compiler |
David Lindauer |
Yes |
No |
MS-DOS |
BSD |
| Pelles C |
Pelle Orinius |
Yes |
No |
No |
Freeware |
| PGCC |
The Portland Group |
Yes |
Yes |
Unknown |
Proprietary |
| Portable C Compiler |
Stephen C. Johnson, Anders Magnusson and others |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
BSD |
| Power C |
Mix Software |
No |
No |
Yes |
Proprietary |
| QuickC |
Microsoft |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
| RCC (RCOR C Compiler) |
Rodrigo Caetano Rocha (rcor) |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
GPL |
| RECC (Robert Elder Compiler Collection) |
Robert Elder |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Proprietary |
| Ritchie C Compiler (PDP-11) |
Dennis Ritchie and John Reiser; converted to cross-compiler by Doug Gwyn |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Freeware |
| SAS/C |
SAS Institute |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes IBM mainframe, AmigaOS, 68K, 88K |
Proprietary |
| SCORE C (tcc) |
DDC-I |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
| Small-C |
Ron Caine, James E. Hendrix, Byte magazine |
Yes |
Yes |
CP/M, MS-DOS |
Public Domain |
| Smaller C |
Alexey Frunze |
Yes |
Linux, RetroBSD |
MS-DOS |
BSD |
| Small Device C Compiler |
Sandeep Dutta and others |
Yes |
Yes |
Unknown |
GPL |
| SubC |
Nils M Holm |
MinGW |
FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux |
MS-DOS |
Public Domain |
| THINK C, Lightspeed C |
THINK Technologies |
No |
No |
Classic Mac OS |
Proprietary |
| Tiny C Compiler |
Fabrice Bellard |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
LGPL |
| (Borland) Turbo C |
Embarcadero |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Proprietary - V 2.01 freely available |
| ups debugger (includes C interpreter) |
Tom Hughes, Ian Edwards, and others |
No |
Yes |
Solaris, SunOS |
GPL |
| VBCC |
Volker Barthelmann |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Freeware (source code available, modification not allowed) |
| Virtual-C IDE |
Dieter Pawelczak |
Yes |
Mac OS X |
No |
Freeware (for non-commercial use) |
| Visual C++ Express |
Microsoft |
Yes |
No |
No |
Freeware |
| Wind River (Diab) Compiler |
Wind River Systems |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
| XL C |
IBM |
No |
AIX, Linux |
No |
Proprietary |
| MCP Compiler |
Unisys |
No |
No |
MCP |
Proprietary |
Source-to-source compilers[edit]
This list is incomplete. A more extensive list of source-to-source compilers can be found here.
C++ compilers[edit]
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| Compiler |
Author |
Windows |
Unix-like |
Other OSs |
License type |
IDE? |
C++11 Standard conformance |
| C++Builder |
Embarcadero (CodeGear) |
Yes |
OS X, iOS[2] |
No |
Proprietary |
Yes |
No
(Supported via Clang.[3]) |
| Turbo C++ Explorer |
Embarcadero (CodeGear) |
Yes |
No |
No |
Freeware |
Yes |
? |
| C++ Compiler |
Embarcadero (CodeGear) |
Yes |
No |
No |
Freeware |
No |
? |
| CINT |
CERN |
Yes |
Yes |
BeBox, DOS, Convex, etc. |
X11/MIT |
Yes |
? |
| Borland C++ |
Borland (CodeGear) |
Yes |
No |
DOS |
Proprietary |
Yes |
No |
| Turbo C++ for DOS |
Borland (CodeGear) |
No |
No |
DOS |
Proprietary |
Yes |
No |
| Clang |
LLVM Project |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
BSD-like |
Xcode, QtCreator (optional) |
Yes |
| CodeWarrior |
Metrowerks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Freeware |
Yes |
? |
| Comeau C/C++ |
Comeau Computing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
No |
No |
| CoSy compiler development system |
ACE Associated Compiler Experts |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Proprietary |
No |
? |
| Digital Mars |
Digital Mars |
Yes |
No |
DOS |
Proprietary |
No |
? |
| EDGE ARM C/C++ |
Mentor Graphics |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
Yes |
? |
| Edison Design Group |
Edison Design Group |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
No |
Yes |
| GCC |
GNU Project |
MinGW, Cygwin |
Yes |
Yes |
GPLv3 |
Xcode, QtCreator, Kdevelop, Eclipse, NetBeans, Code::Blocks, Geany |
Yes[4] |
| HP aC++ |
Hewlett-Packard |
No |
Yes |
No |
Proprietary |
No |
? |
| IAR C/C++ Compilers |
IAR Systems |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
Yes |
No |
| Intel C++ Compiler |
Intel |
Yes |
Linux, OS X |
No |
Proprietary (Freeware for most non-commercial applications) |
Yes |
Yes |
| KAI C++ Compiler |
Kuck & Associates, Inc. (bought by Intel) |
No |
Digital Unix, HP-UX, Linux for Intel x86, SGI Irix 5.3,SGI Irix 6.x, Solaris 2.x |
No |
Proprietary |
Unknown |
? |
| Microtec |
Mentor Graphics |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
Yes |
? |
| MULTI |
Green Hills Software |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
Yes |
? |
| Open Watcom |
Sybase |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Sybase Open Watcom Public License |
Yes |
? |
| Open64 |
HP, AMD, Tsinghua University and others |
No |
Yes |
No |
Modified GPLv2 |
No |
? |
| PathScale |
PathScale and others |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Mixed (Proprietary&Open Source&GNU General Public License) |
No |
? |
| PGCPP |
The Portland Group |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
Proprietary |
Yes |
? |
| ProDev WorkShop |
Silicon Graphics |
No |
No |
Yes |
Proprietary |
Yes |
? |
| RealView C/C++ Compiler (armcc) |
Keil (ARM Limited) |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Proprietary |
Yes |
? |
| Salford C++ Compiler |
Silverfrost |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
Yes |
? |
| SAS/C C++ |
SAS Institute |
Windows NT/95 |
AIX, Solaris/SunOS, Linux |
IBM mainframe, DOS |
Proprietary |
No |
? |
| SCORE C++ (tpp) |
DDC-I |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
Yes |
No |
| Systems/C,C++ |
Dignus |
Yes |
Linux |
No |
Proprietary |
Yes |
? |
| Solaris Studio |
Oracle |
No |
Linux, Solaris |
No |
Proprietary |
Yes |
Yes |
| Solaris Studio Express |
Oracle |
No |
Linux, Solaris |
No |
Freeware |
Yes |
Yes |
| TenDRA |
TenDRA Project |
No |
Yes |
No |
BSD License |
No |
? |
| VectorC |
Codeplay |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
No |
? |
| Visual C++ |
Microsoft |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
Yes |
Yes[5] |
| VisualAge C++ |
IBM |
Yes |
AIX, Linux |
OS/2 |
Proprietary |
Yes |
? |
| XL C/C++ |
IBM |
No |
Linux (POWER and Cell) and AIX |
BlueGene and VM |
Proprietary |
Eclipse |
Yes |
| Wind River (Diab) Compiler |
Wind River Systems |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
Yes |
? |
C# compilers[edit]
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COBOL compilers[edit]
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D compilers[edit]
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| Compiler |
Author |
Windows |
Unix-like |
Other OSs |
License type |
IDE? |
| Synergy DBL[7][8][9] |
Synergex |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
Yes |
ECMAScript interpreters[edit]
See List of ECMAScript engines.
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| Compiler |
Author |
Windows |
Unix-like |
Other OSs |
License type |
IDE? |
| EiffelStudio |
Eiffel Software / Community developed (sourceforge) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Dual GPL / Proprietary |
Yes |
Felix compilers[edit]
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| Compiler |
Author |
Unix-like |
Other OSs |
License type |
IDE? |
| Felix |
John Skaller |
Yes |
Yes |
Open Source |
No |
Fortran compilers[edit]
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Go compilers[edit]
Haskell compilers[edit]
HaskellWiki maintains a list of Haskell implementations. Many of them are compilers.
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Pascal compilers[edit]
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PL/I compilers[edit]
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Scheme compilers and interpreters[edit]
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| Compiler |
Author |
Target |
Windows |
Unix-like |
Other OSs |
License type |
IDE? |
| Bigloo |
Manuel Serrano |
native, bytecode |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
GPL (compiler) and LGPL (runtime) |
No |
| Chez Scheme |
Cadence Research Systems |
native |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Proprietary |
No |
| Chicken Scheme |
The CHICKEN Team |
C |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
BSD |
No |
| Common Larceny |
William Clinger, Lars Hansen |
CLI |
Yes |
? |
? |
Larceny License[12] |
No |
| Gambit |
Marc Feeley |
C |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
LGPL |
No |
| GNU Guile |
GNU Project |
bytecode |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
LGPL |
No |
| Ikarus Scheme |
Abdulaziz Ghuloum |
native |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
GPL |
No |
| IronScheme |
Llewellyn Pritchard |
CLI |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
Ms-PL |
No |
| JScheme |
Ken Anderson, Tim Hickey, Peter Norvig |
bytecode |
Java |
Java |
Java |
zlib License |
No |
| Kawa |
Per Bothner |
bytecode |
Java |
Java |
Java |
MIT |
No |
| Larceny |
William Clinger, Lars Hansen |
native |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
Larceny License[13] |
No |
| MIT/GNU Scheme |
GNU Project |
native |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
GPL |
No |
| Owl Lisp |
Aki Helin |
C |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
MIT |
No |
| Oxygen Scheme |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
No |
| Petit Larceny |
William Clinger, Lars Hansen |
C |
? |
Yes |
? |
Larceny License[14] |
No |
| PVTS |
David Pilo |
bytecode |
Java |
Java |
Java |
GPL |
No |
| Racket |
PLT Inc. |
bytecode + JIT |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
LGPL |
DrRacket |
| RScheme |
Donovan Kolbly |
C, bytecode |
? |
Yes |
? |
Open source |
No |
| #S |
? |
CLI |
? |
? |
? |
? |
No |
| Scheme 48 |
Richard Kelsey, Jonathan Rees |
C, bytecode |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
BSD |
No |
| SCM |
Aubrey Jaffer |
C |
Yes |
Yes |
AmigaOS, Atari ST, Classic Mac OS, MS-DOS, OS/2, NOS/VE, OpenVMS |
LGPL |
No |
| SISC |
Scott G. Miller, Matthias Radestock |
bytecode |
Java |
Java |
Java |
GPL and MPL |
No |
| Stalin |
Jeffrey Mark Siskind |
C |
? |
Yes |
? |
LGPL |
No |
| Interpreter |
Author |
Windows |
Unix-like |
Other OSs |
License type |
IDE? |
| Elk Scheme |
Oliver Laumann, Sam Hocevar |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
Open source |
No |
| Gauche |
Shiro Kawai |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
BSD |
No |
| Petite Chez Scheme |
Cadence Research Systems |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Freeware |
No |
Smalltalk compilers[edit]
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CLI compilers[edit]
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Open source compilers[edit]
Production quality, open source compilers.
- The Plan 9 C compiler collection by Ken Thompson
- Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) [C, Pascal, Modula-2, Occam, and BASIC] [Unix-like]
- Clang C/C++/Objective-C Compiler
- FreeBASIC [Basic] [DOS/Linux/Windows]
- Free Pascal [Pascal] [DOS/Linux/Windows(32/64/CE)/MacOS/NDS/GBA/..(and many more)]
- Roadsend PHP [PHP 5] [Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, OS X]
- GCC [C, C++ (G++), Java (GCJ), Ada (GNAT), Objective-C, Objective-C++, Fortran (GFortran), and Go (GCCGo). Also available, but not in standard are: Modula-2, Modula-3, Pascal, PL/I, D, Mercury, VHDL] [Linux, the BSDs, OS X, NeXTSTEP, Windows and BeOS, among others]
- Local C compiler [C] [Linux, SPARC, MIPS]
- The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure which is also frequently used for research
- Portable C Compiler [C] [Unix-like]
- Open Watcom [C, C++, and Fortran] [Windows and OS/2, Linux/FreeBSD WIP]
- TenDRA [C/C++] [Unix-like]
- Tiny C Compiler [C] [Linux, Windows]
- S7c - A compiler for Seed7 (extensible language with many advanced features). Generates C code for GCC, Visual C or Borland C, Supports portable programs for Linux, Windows, OS X, Unix and BSD.
- libJIT Just-In-Time compilation library, a library by Rhys Weatherley, Klaus Treichel, Aleksey Demakov, and Kirill Kononenko for development of Just-In-Time compilers (JIT) in Virtual Machine implementations, Dynamic programming languages, and Scripting languages.
- Open64, supported by AMD on Linux.
- COINS compiler infrastructure
- XPL PL/I dialect (several systems)
Research compilers[edit]
Research compilers are mostly not robust or complete enough to handle real, large applications. They are used mostly for fast prototyping new language features and new optimizations in research areas.
- Open64: one of the most popular research compilers today, many branches exist. Here is a list of research papers from the CGO 2009. (Open64 merges the open source changes from the PathScale compiler mentioned.)
- ROSE compiler framework: an open source compiler framework to generate source-to-source analyzers and translators for C/C++ and Fortran, developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Polaris compiler for Fortran
- Cetus for C/C++, successor of Polaris compiler
- MILEPOST GCC: interactive plugin-based open-source research compiler that combines the strength of GCC and the flexibility of the common Interactive Compilation Interface that transforms production compilers into interactive research toolsets.
- Interactive Compilation Interface - a plugin system with high-level API to transform production-quality compilers such as GCC into powerful and stable research infrastructure while avoiding developing new research compilers from scratch.
- SUIF: inactive since 2001
- MACHINE SUIF a branch focusing on machine-specific analyses and optimizations
- PIPS: a source-to-source compiler framework with a Fortran 77, Fortran 95 and C front-end, focussing on advanced analyses and transformations.
- OpenIMPACT Compiler
- Phoenix optimization and analysis framework by Microsoft
- Very Portable Optimizer (VPO) from the University of Virginia
- COINS compiler infrastructure
- Trimaran for research in instruction-level parallelism
- Parafrase-2 Inactive. It is a source-to-source vectorizing/parallelizing compiler, with Fortran and C front-ends.
- The PARADIGM compiler. Derived from Parafrase-2, it is a source-to-source research compiler for distributed-memory multicomputers for Fortran 77 and HPF.
- MLton standard ML compiler (SML compiler)
- Jikes Research Virtual machine (Jikes RVM): a research virtual machine for Java that uses two just-in-time compilers (a non-optimizing and an optimizing one)
- Soot: a Java Optimization framework
- The Scale compiler
- HotpathVM: a Java virtual machine using a trace-based just-in-time compiler
- ILDJIT: a compilation framework that targets the CIL bytecode that includes both static and dynamic compilers. ILDJIT provides a plugin-based framework for static, as well as dynamic tasks like code translations, code analysis, code optimizations, runtime instrumentation and memory management. Its plugin-based framework allows users to easily customize execution both at installation time, as well as at run-time (by dynamically loading and unloading plugins without perturbing execution). ILDJIT thus enables efficient co-design research at the architectural-boundary. Moreover, its multi-threaded design allows novel introspection of parallel compilation strategies to reduce overheads and dynamically optimize running code on today's x86 multi-core systems.
- Edison Design Group: provides production-quality front end compilers for C, C++, and Java (a number of the compilers listed on this page use front end source code from Edison Design Group[15]). Additionally, Edison Design Group makes their proprietary software available for research uses.[16]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
