CoSy Release History

In the late eighties, after having developed many compilers for over a decade, it became clear to ACE that the dramatic increase in complexity and internal parallelism of processors would make the classical approach of handcrafting optimal code generators increasingly inefficient and ultimately no longer cost effective. In 1990, ACE together with Europe’s finest compiler researchers set out to end the traditional way of compiler construction. In 1994, and more than 120 person years later, ACE unveiled the first results of this major effort: compilers that are computer generated and that are freed from the straight jacket of the sequential compilation model.
Today, this revolutionary compiler production technology is used by dozens of computer manufacturers, microprocessor manufacturers and compiler vendors to construct production quality compilers for various programming languages, types of processor architectures and software development markets.