\chapter{Conclusions}
During this internship, I have of course learned a lot. While a large part of
these lessons are very practical in nature (from how working in a company works
to how to solve specific coding problems), there are also a number of higher
level observations to be made.

For example, I have found that the main challenge in solving a problem, is
defining the actual problem you want to solve. This is clearly visible in the
specification of MontiumC: If you don't know what the goals are, you can't
really work towards them. But, on a smaller scale, this also holds on a smaller
scale. When, during coding you encounter a problem, it's often easy to try to
solve that problem. However, after stacking a few small solutions on top of each
other, things get complicated real fast. Then, it helps to take a step back and
try to find the bigger problem you are trying to solve, and evaluate
subsolutions in that perspective.

During my (limited amount of) work with the new hardware design, it became
quickly apparent that trying to design the hardware in an optimal way, was
completely impossible (when trying to stay within area and power constraints).
The most important issue in this design is finding the balance between two sides
of a tradeoff, which was quite often hardware vs compiler complexity. Especially
this last issue makes it very clear that when designing hardware, the supporting
tooling should be designed in parallel, to prevent the tooling from needing to
be overly complex.

These limitations are also visible when working with the old hardware: The
hardware poses a lot of limitations on its input, which makes it quite hard to
build a proper compiler, that can reliably compile anything that it is supposed
to. Again, adapting the hardware to support the compiler, has the potential to
make the compiler considerably less complex and more reliable, at the cost of
larger hardware complexity, area and power consumption.

All in all, I feel that this internship has worked out quite well. The people
were cooperating, the job was fun yet challenging and the result is
well-received.
