%T Developing an optimising compiler for occam
%A  Spiridon Kalogeropoulos
%E Peter H. Welch,  Andr\[`e] W. P. Bakkers
%B Proceedings of WoTUG\-21: Architectures, Languages and Patterns for Parallel and Distributed Applications
%X occam is a high\-level language which got constructs for
   generating explicitly concurrent processes which communicate
   using channels. In this paper we present our methodology for
   developing an optimising occam compiler which consist of a
   framework to represent concurrency and the semantic
   properties of an occam program that enables efficient
   process optimisations, and inter\-procedural optimisations
   to be performed. Furthermore, we tackle the issue of
   retargeting the optimising occam compiler for different
   processors of the transputer family.