mir
A lightweight JIT compiler based on MIR (Medium Internal Representation) and C11 JIT compiler and interpreter based on MIR (by vnmakarov)
Cwerg
The best C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC. (by robertmuth)
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mir
Posts with mentions or reviews of mir.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.
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Ravi is a dialect of Lua, with JIT and AOT compilers
MIR comes from the Rubyverse and isn't related to LLVM MLIR.
- Mir: Strongly typed IR to implement fast and lightweight interpreters and JITs
- Implementing Interactive Languages
- I developed a faster Ruby interpreter
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Are Hoistings Possible for C++?
When you say a fork of LLVM, am I correct in assuming that you specifically mean a fork of Clang? I don't see how the compiler backend would affect support for language extensions, regardless of whether it's an exception to that such as Tcc, Cproc, the MIR C jitter, lacc, 8cc, 9cc, and chibicc. Most of those are not for production, excluding Cproc and Tcc (at least according to Suckless or Oasis).
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Suggestion for a backend?
MIR
- Ask HN: Recommendation for general purpose JIT compiler
- How to learn compilers: LLVM Edition
- What instructions are needed for a language vm
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Nelua Programming Language
> I wish C was scriptable
C kinda can be used as scripting language with MIR project https://github.com/vnmakarov/mir
It was released just a few days ago, and I've successfully use it as an alternative and fast C compiler with Nelua.
Cwerg
Posts with mentions or reviews of Cwerg.
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Cwerg: C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC
Perhaps these have already been dealt with and I'm missing critical information. If so, my apologies. Great work, in any case.
[1] https://github.com/robertmuth/Cwerg/tree/master/FrontEnd#dis...
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Where can I find resources and guides on how to build compiler backends?
Cwerg has backend that can be used as JIT and is written with readability in mind. Additional documentation can be found here: https://github.com/robertmuth/Cwerg/tree/master/Docs
- Most important language features not touched in the book "Crafting Interpreters"?
- Lack of resources in creating Assemblers from scratch.
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Minimum ISA Capabilities to Support Most (Non-Interactive) Programs?
I defined a basic ISA-like IR for Cwerg. It has unlimited registers and no constraints on immediates.
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How do you design a compiler and a language?
entire compiler front end ast nodes
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Syntax Design
I was also going down the path of bike shedding concrete syntax for my language Cwerg before pulling the plug on that effort and just using s-exprs. I managed to make the s-expr quite succinct by carefully choosing the order of arguments so I can omit optional ones. Also very helpful was to use square brackets for list, e.g. (call fun-name [arg1 arg2]). This simplifies parsing a little bit and is easier on the eye. Here are some Code Examples
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November 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I am iterating over the languages features for Cwerg's Frontend which aims to be a low level language with about the complexity of C but with some of the comforts of modern languages. I am especially happy with the choice of adding sum types. Relative to C the current feature set looks like this: Removed: * arrays decay to pointers * bitfields * separate compilation (more of a backend issue) * pre-processor * varargs * implcit type conversions * (untagged) unions * ++/-- * comma operator * implicitly nullable pointers * goto
- typed asts and codegen
- Features Compendium
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mir and Cwerg you can also consider the following projects:
asmjit - Low-latency machine code generation
tinycc - Unofficial mirror of mob development branch
LuaJIT - Mirror of the LuaJIT git repository
ecl
bluebird - A work-in-progess programming language modeled after Ada and C++
terra - Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by the Lua programming language.
asmdb - Instructions database and utilities for X86/X64 and ARM (THUMB/A32/A64) architectures.
kcs - Scripting in C with JIT(x64)/VM.
konna - A fast functional language based on two level type theory
gcc-toolchain - A fully-hermetic Bazel GCC toolchain for Linux.
mass - A compiler for a new language focusing on compile-time execution and no LLVM dependency.