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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.
https://github.com/vnmakarov/mir?tab=readme-ov-file#mir
- 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.
minivm
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Show HN: I wrote a WebAssembly Interpreter and Toolkit in C
> I developed a unique way to write interpreters based on threaded code jumps and basic block versioning when I made MiniVM (https://github.com/FastVM/minivm). It was both larger and more dynamic than WebAssembly.
I'd be very interested to read more about this. It looks like you are using "one big function" with computed goto (https://github.com/FastVM/Web49/blob/main/src/interp/interp....). My experience working on this problem led me to the same conclusion as Mike Pall, which is that compilers do not do well with this pattern (particularly when it comes to register allocation): http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg00742.html
I'm curious how you worked around the problem of poor register allocation in the compiler. I've come to the conclusion that tail calls are the best solution to this problem: https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/04/21/musttail-efficient-i...
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Ask HN: Recommendation for general purpose JIT compiler
Maybe take a look at MiniVM[0]? It was on HN a couple months ago[1].
[0]: https://github.com/fastvm/minivm
- MiniVM: “Minivm Port to Dlang”
- MiniVM: A zero-dependency cross-language runtime on par with LuaJIT and C
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Hacker News top posts: Jan 8, 2022
MiniVM: A zero-dependency cross-language runtime on par with LuaJIT and C\ (19 comments)
- MiniVM: A minimal cross-language runtime that beats C/luajit on some benchmarks
What are some alternatives?
asmjit - Low-latency machine code generation
privacytests.org - Source code for privacytests.org. Includes browser testing code and site rendering.
LuaJIT - Mirror of the LuaJIT git repository
sljit - Platform independent low-level JIT compiler
Cwerg - The best C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC.
ecl
paka - Paka language
kcs - Scripting in C with JIT(x64)/VM.
terra - Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by the Lua programming language.
qbe-rs - QBE IR in natural Rust data structures