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I'm currently auditing the Stanford compilers course online. I understand the inertia in introductory courses, and the simplicity of MIPS, but hopefully the course is eventually ported to Aarch64 or RISC-V. Presumably a spim-like simulator for Aarch64 or RISC-V is the biggest missing component.

6.004 was one of my favorite classes at MIT, and the DEC Alpha AXP was a fine architecture to simplify for the pedagogical Beta architecture. However, I'm glad to hear they've moved to RISC-V. I presume they'd been avoiding porting the course to Aarch64 (or a simplified version thereof) due to intellectual property issues.



For AArch32, not AArch64, but there's https://salmanarif.bitbucket.io/visual/index.html as a SPIM replacement.


Worth mentioning that there's a new version of that here: https://github.com/scc416/Visual2 I don't believe the source code for the first version was ever released.




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