PeLib
xvm
PeLib | xvm | |
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4 | 110 | |
6 | 190 | |
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0.0 | 9.8 | |
over 1 year ago | 1 day ago | |
C++ | Java | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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PeLib
- How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?
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Thoughts on building on a VM (in particular, .NET/CLR) but not "exposing" the underlying VM?
I'm usually working with the third edition of the ISO 23271 standard, which corresponds to ECMA 335 5th Edition. There is also the book ".NET IL Assembler" (2014) by Serge Lidin which gives some additional context and a good structure to learn the details. My compiler is written in C++, not depending on the .Net framework; I don't use the reflection and emit features of .Net, but https://github.com/rochus-keller/Pelib/ to generate assemblies; also the generated code only requires minimal mscorlib.dll features, so I can use a minimal CLR.
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KT/COBOL — Choosing a VM edition — I need to hear your experiences with the VM you're currently using for your project.
Most of my languages have VM backends; see e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon; I implemented different backends generating LuaJIT bytecode; a year ago I switched to Mono which is based on ECMA-335; here is a discussion why I switched: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon/releases/tag/IDEv0.9.0; I implemented utility libraries for both LuaJIT and CIL bytecode; see https://github.com/rochus-keller/LjTools/, https://github.com/rochus-keller/Pelib/ and https://github.com/rochus-keller/MonoTools/. I evaluated many VMs and think the mentioned ones are best suited. There were a lot of challenges with both technologies, what is to be expected, and too much to describe here.
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Is the Mono CLR really slower than CoreCLR?
And as I understand now achieving optimal performance with CoreCLR requires inside know-how of RyuJIT and Roslyn (which I don't have anyway), i.e. ECMA-335 alone is not sufficient; the actual compilation target to achieve optimal performance with CoreCLR is therefore Roslyn, not ECMA-335; of course I could generate C# instead of IL, but then I would depend on the framework and slow down the compiler. My current code generator based on https://github.com/rochus-keller/PeLib is about 30 times faster than ILASM.
xvm
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Implementing arrays (and hash tables and ..) in a minimal ML with a C API
Have a look at the ecstasy library for the language definitions of these types.
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Polymorphic static members
2) Funky interfaces: This is an Ecstasy interface that declares abstract static members (e.g. functions), which can then be implemented on any class and overridden on any sub-class, such that they can be invoked by type (instead of this), and virtually resolved (late bound at runtime) based on the type known at compile time. The best known example, of course, is Hashable, because it has to guarantee that a type implements both equals() and hashCode() on the same class, and the implementation is tied to the type, and not to the this. (C# added a similar feature last year in version 11.)
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How do you parse function calls?
I'm just going to warn you in advance that invocation is one of the hardest things in the compiler to make easy. In other words, the nicer your language's "developer experience" is around invocation, the more hell you're going to have to go through to get there. The AST nodes for Name( (NameExpression) and Invoke( (InvocationExpression) alone are 7kloc in the Ecstasy implementation, for example -- but the result is well worth it.
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What are some important differences between the popular versions of OOP (e.g. Java, Python) vs. the purist's versions of OOP (e.g. Smalltalk)?
Ecstasy uses message passing automatically behind the scenes for asynchronous calls, but the message passing isn't visible at the language level (i.e. there is no "message object" or something like that visible). Basically, all Ecstasy code is executing on a fiber inside a service, and services are all running concurrently, so from any service realm to any service realm, the communication is by message.
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Is your language solving a real world problem?
Regarding Ecstasy, we did not set out to build a new language; we actually set out to solve a real world problem. Specifically, we wanted to be able to dramatically improve the density of workloads in data centers, by at least two orders of magnitude in the case of lightly used applications. Our initial goal was to create a runtime design that would support 10,000 stateful application instances on a single server. Let's call it the "a10k" problem 🤣 ... a tribute to the c10k problem from 1999. We refer to our goal as "zero carbon compute", i.e. we want to push the power and hardware cost for an application to as close to zero as possible; you can't reach zero, but you can get close. If we succeed, we will help reduce the electricity used in data centers over the next few decades by a significant percentage.
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How do you tokenize multi char tokens.
Generally, left to right, one character at a time. If you’re looking for example code, here’s a simple hand-built lexer.
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Have you written your own language in itself yet?
Parts of Ecstasy are now implemented in Ecstasy. Here's the Lexer, for example.
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Top programming languages created in the 2010's on GitHub by stars
Ecstasy
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What languages have been created *specifically* for the purpose of being JIT-compiled?
Ecstasy and the xvm were designed assuming an adaptive runtime compiler (similar in concept to the Hotspot compiler for Java), but not necessarily using a JIT.
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What are you doing about async programming models? Best? Worst? Strengths? Weaknesses?
A Future reference has the various capabilities that you'd imagine, taking lambdas for thenDo(), whenComplete(), etc. The reference, in the above example, is a local variable, so you just obtain it using the C-style & operator:
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