You are correct. I had (and read !), that book, but I had obviously forgotten the author. I later worked with someone who also had Josh Fisher as his advisor, so that's where my lossy memory name substitution came from. Thank you for the correction !

I enjoyed that book when I read it.

On 04/02/2024 03:55 PM, Paul McJones wrote:

You can always read Josh Fisher's book on the "Bulldog" compiler, I
believe he did this work at Yale.

Are you thinking of John Ellis’s thesis:

Bulldog: A Compiler for VLIW Architectures

John R. Ellis

February 1985

http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr364.pdf

Fisher was Ellis’s advisor. The thesis was also published in ACM’s Doctoral Dissertation Award:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262050340/bulldog/

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.