OMCCp Thesis status: Published

This work is done!

I have to thank a lot of people for this, but I need another post for that. Now finally the thesis is been submitted and published.

The final URL is http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-68863

This ends this Blog and the story of how I made my thesis.

As common as fairy tales, my examiner wanted me to work part time for him, in order to finish some further work related with my thesis. So this story ends with me sitting in the same place as I produce the most of my thesis but now as an employee.

This is then my stone to this field of science called Computer Science:

“People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.” Donald Knuth

BibTex
@misc{Lopez-Rojas11,
author = {Lopez-Rojas Edgar Alonso},
institution = {Linköping University, PELAB - Programming Environment Laboratory},
pages = {233},
title = {OMCCp : A MetaModelica Based Parser Generator Applied to Modelica},
year = {2011}
}

OMCCP new name suggested

OMCCP is the new name of this tool. OpenModelica Compiler-Compiler Parser is now the name of this thesis project.

After a carefully review from the Examiner and a short discussion about how suitable is to call Compiler-Compiler a tool that only generates the parser we decided to call it OMCCP, which stands for OpenModelica Compiler-Compiler Parser as stated before.

The thesis is now graded by the examiner as ACCEPTED. The final version with the corrections included was already issued and it is just a matter of time when the PDF will be ready and officially accepted for being published online.

The last post of this BLOG will contain the URL where it is finally located the latest version of the report.

Final version submitted for approval

Today I have submitted the final version of the report of the master's thesis to my examiner. He will take a look and approve or suggest changes for the final report.

I hope everything is alright and only minor changes from him will need to be applied.

Next week is my opposition, so I will be done with all the requirements that Linköping University asks for the final project.

Thesis presented!!

After a successful presentation today, now it remains only the correction of a few mistakes in the report and wait for the approval of the examiner for the final version of the report.

Next week I will have a meeting with my examiner to define the final modifications for submitting the final version of this report.

The project is almost done!

OMCC Presentation coming soon

Only one day left for the presentation, the latex Beamer software helped me for the first time to produce a PDF for the presentation. It is quite uncommon but very interesting to use LaTeX for a presentation. The result seems quite professional and only a few will tell it is LaTeX.

Today I will do one last rehearsal to prepare the presentation. It will take place in the room called Donald Knuth which is nice due to the contribution of Knuth to the LR parsing in 1965.

The last week I have been working only in the presentation and I did some reading again of the literature in order to have fresh all the concepts of compilers in case tricky questions come up by the opponent.

After a remarkable progress with the grammar with about 92% of the test suite working, OMCC is getting ready to be incorporated into the OMC compiler for OpenModelica.

Final optimizations

I have increase the performance of my parser by simplifying the lexer and the parser. After I took out the recursion lexing and parsing one token at the time was easier.

My examiner wants me to implement an external C function to improve the speed of the lexer but the lexer is not my concern now. The time that the parser takes is considerable long, compared to the lexer.

More test will be performed over this weekend at the same time I keep growing the grammar which now only fails in 98 out of 568 cases in the grammar.

Presentation for the thesis scheduled

The time has come to present my thesis.

I have 2 weeks to prepare a good presentation and make good use of the software I produced.

However some improvements are required for the lexer to improve the performance.

The time for the presentation will be the 31st May 2011 15.15

Now is time to prepare an awesome presentation!!