10/11   Is 264 interesting and worth taking, assume you loved the undergrad
        version of it?
        \_ who's teaching it?  graham 264 after aiken 164 was boring
           and spent _way_ too long on parser crap.  263 is a lot more
           interesting if you're into abstract analyses and transformation.
           265 is where you go into instruction scheduling and such.
        \_ when I took 264 from graham, the course lacked good organization.
           and yes, she spends an eternity on lexer/parser stuff, so as to make
           up for what some of the grad students didn't get in their ugrad
           her lectures were crappy and scatterbrained.  and yes, she spends
           an eternity on lexer/parser stuff, so as to make up for what some of
           the grad students didn't get in their ugrad