20 years on and now there's going to be a new edition of The Dragon Book, the canonical textbook on compilation. That $108 projected price is a bit daunting though!!
New features include discussions of interprocedural program analysis, garbage collection, just in time compilation, and optimization for parallel machines. They must cover instruction level parallelism somewhere and how it affects code generation. That's been a big change since 1986. Also, Addison-Wesly seems to be running some sort of online assignment tool called Gradiance, in conjunction with the book.
Of course the real question is, what's the cover going to look like? Will the Dragon still be there? How about the Knight? If so, what will their new editions look like?
Enquiring minds want to know!!