This includes good coverage of current techniques in code generation and allocation, as well as functional and object-oriented languages, is missing from most books. The first part of this book, Fundamentals of Compilation, is suitable for one-semester first course in compiler design. The second part, Advanced Topics, which includes the advanced chapters, covers the preparation of object oriented and functional languages, garbage collection, loop optimizations, SSA form, loop scheduling, and optimization for cache-memory hierarchies.