selfie
qbe-rs
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Jupyter Notebook | Rust | |
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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selfie
- A tiny hand crafted CPU emulator, C compiler, and Operating System
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Project Oberon the Design of an Operating System, a Compiler, and a Computer Pdf
this sort of exists at https://github.com/cksystemsteaching/selfie
> Selfie is a self-contained 64-bit, 12KLOC C implementation of: (...) a tiny (...) subset of C called C Star (C) (...) to a tiny (...) subset of RISC-V called RISC-U[;] a[n] (...) emulator (...) that executes RISC-U code[;] (...) a (...) hypervisor (...) that provides RISC-U virtual machines*
so they have an instruction set architecture, a compiler, and an operating system, though it's much simpler than xv6. because the instruction set is a subset of risc-v you can run its code on actual risc-v hardware (or qemu-system-riscv), but presumably you could also design risc-u hardware in verilog that was simpler than a full implementation of rv64i with whatever extensions the hypervisor needs
- Best book on writing an optimizing compiler (inlining, types, abstract interpretation)?
- Selfie: An educational platform for teaching systems engineering
- An educational software system of a tiny self-compiling C compiler, a tiny self-executing RISC-V emulator, and a tiny self-hosting RISC-V hypervisor.
- Selfie: An Educational Platform For Teaching Systems Engineering
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
[2] https://www.uops.info/
[3] https://briancallahan.net/blog/20211010.html
[4] https://c9x.me/compile/
[5] https://drewdevault.com/talks/qbe.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?
oscam-patched - Open Source Cam Emulator
ubpf - Userspace eBPF VM
coollang-2020-fs - Compiler of a small Scala subset
mir - A lightweight JIT compiler based on MIR (Medium Internal Representation) and C11 JIT compiler and interpreter based on MIR
perseus - A state-driven web development framework for Rust with full support for server-side rendering and static generation.
minivm - A VM That is Dynamic and Fast
scamp-cpu - A homebrew 16-bit CPU with a homebrew Unix-like-ish operating system.
c4 - C in four functions
shecc - A self-hosting and educational C optimizing compiler
well - The Future of Assembly Language. https://wellang.github.io/well/
the_ray_tracer_challenge_in_rust - Repository to follow my development of "The Raytracer Challenge" book by Jamis Buck in the language Rust
wasmtime - A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly