The design of very fast portable compilers
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, M. Frans Kaashoek, Koen G. Langendoen, Ceriel J. H. Jacobs · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 1989
The Amsterdam Compiler Kit is a widely used compiler building system. Up until now, the emphasis has been on producing good object code. In this paper we describe recent work that has focused on reducing compile time. The techniques described in this paper have resulted in C compilers for the Sun-3 and VAX that are 3 to 4 times faster than the native compilers provided by the manufacturers.