Purpose:
The primary purpose of the quizzes is to assess your understanding of the problems, approaches,
contributions, and limitations of the research projects we have read about and discussed in class.
The second purpose is to encourage you to critically analyze and summarize the important contributions
and establish a perspective of the state of the art in addressing the challenging problems for compiler
writers today.
Suggestions on How to Prepare:
Reread your PDPFs, the class slides, and the paper abstract for each paper
to refamiliarize yourself with each of the papers' problems, approaches, contributions,
and limitations.
If you want, rescan over the papers themselves for more details, but assessment of
retention of minor details is
not a goal of the quiz.
Discuss the papers with a colleague or group of colleagues in the course to remind yourselves
of the concerns and interesting points of the papers.
Stand back (not literally!) from the set of papers and think about the more global problems and the state of
the art as seen through the papers we have seen so far.
Quiz 1 Date, Format and Coverage:
Date: Thursday, October 10th, in class.
Coverage: The first 9 papers read/presented up to and including 10/03. The first quiz will not cover the papers presented on 10/08 and later.
Format: Short answer, essay, maybe some matching or fill in the blank! It will be designed to take about 30-40 minutes. You will have the full class period to work on the quiz if you want. Or, you can leave early that day!
Quiz 2 Date, Format and Coverage:
Date: Thursday, November 21st, in class.
Coverage: The second quiz will cover the papers presented on 10/08 (Rajagopalan etal), 10/15 (Liao etal), 10/17 (Ossia etal), 10/22 (Hallenberg etal), 10/24 (Blackburn etal), 10/29 (So etal), 11/7 (Palem etal), 11/12 (Chilimbi etal), and 11/14 (Burtscher etal).
Format: Short answer, and essay. It will be designed to take about 40 minutes. You will have the full class period to work on the quiz if you want. Or, you can leave early that day!