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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.
qbe-rs
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Odin Programming Language
> I think it uses a different backend than LLVM
harec uses https://c9x.me/compile/
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Frontend for GCC?
Have you considered QBE?
- QBE – Compiler Back End
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What do C programmers think of the Zig language in 2023?
I really hope other new projects (like QBE) can really grow and become widely used
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Toy C compiler, worth having an IR stage?
I really liked targetting QBE (https://c9x.me/compile/) as an IR, as it gave me lots of back-end optimisations for free 😊.
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C or LLVM for a fast backend?
There is: QBE.
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A whirlwind tour of the LLVM optimizer
You might be underestimating the accuracy of the CPU models LLVM uses.
For x86, the same data the code generator uses drives llvm-mca[1], which given a loop body can tell you the throughput, latency, and microarchitectural bottlenecks (decoding, ports, dependencies, store forwarding, etc.)—if not always precisely, then still not worse then IACA, the tool written at Intel by people who presumably knew how the CPUs work, unlike LLVM contributors and the rest of us who can only guess and measure. This separately for Haswell, Sandy Bridge, Skylake, etc.; not “x86”.
Now, is this the best model you can get? Not exactly[2], but it’s close enough to not matter. Do we often need machine code to be optimized to that level of detail? Perhaps not[3], and with that in mind you can shave at least a factor of ten off LLVM’s considerable bulk at the cost of 20—30% of performance[4,5]. But if you do want those as well, it seems that the complexity of LLVM is a fair price, or has the right order of magnitude at least.
(Frontend not included, C++ frontend required to bootstrap sold separately, at a similar markup compared to a C-only frontend with somewhat worse ergonomics.)
[1] https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.html
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Made my first LLVM front-end… Now what?
You can try buildling you own backend like llvm. A good example or starting point is probably QBE since it is extremely small but very functional.
- Best book on writing an optimizing compiler (inlining, types, abstract interpretation)?
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Rust port of B3 from WebKit, LLVM-like backend
How big is the whole backend? I've heard that it is small but I wanted to compare it to QBE which is around 8 KLoC and it is quite interesting too.
What are some alternatives?
asmjit - Low-latency machine code generation
ubpf - Userspace eBPF VM
LuaJIT - Mirror of the LuaJIT git repository
minivm - A VM That is Dynamic and Fast
Cwerg - The best C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC.
well - The Future of Assembly Language. https://wellang.github.io/well/
terra - Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by the Lua programming language.
wasmtime - A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly
kcs - Scripting in C with JIT(x64)/VM.
c4 - C in four functions
ecl
Befunge - lang befunge 93 fast