Cliff Click is famous for writing the original hot-spot JIT
compiler for the Java programming language. He is a compiler
guru, and conducts a weekly compiler club that is open to anyone
who wants to join.
I think this is a great forum for would be language designers to
learn from compiler gurus. Of course even better if more experts
joined the club too, sharing their knowledge!
[YouTube
Channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c80TMjFNSKE&list=PL05j31Knswhn7RLk-VKHZ6RI4e9D4d-6e)
Cliff Click's approach combines data flow framework, type
framework, and SSA into a one unified data structure that is a
graph intermediate representation.
Some of Cliff's papers:
[A Simple Graph-Based Intermediate
Representation](https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/c2-ir95-150110.pdf)
[Link to Cliff's
research](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cliff-Click)
