This was a graduate-level research seminar, whose purpose was ostensibly to prepare graduate students to conduct research in this area. Unfortunately, my undergraduate compilers course covered more material than this one.
I think these days, a proper compilers course should also be a comparative study of programming languages. There is a lot to learn from comparing how C++ vs Python vs Haskell go from text -> machine code. There are both practical and theoretical aspects to this, and I would expect a graduate-level research-focused course to cover the more theoretical side.
I think these days, a proper compilers course should also be a comparative study of programming languages. There is a lot to learn from comparing how C++ vs Python vs Haskell go from text -> machine code. There are both practical and theoretical aspects to this, and I would expect a graduate-level research-focused course to cover the more theoretical side.