How to write a very basic compiler - Software Engineering Stack …
How can I write a basic compiler to convert a static text into a machine readable file? The next step will be introducing variables into the compiler; imagine that we want to write a compiler which compile …
How do I create my own programming language and a compiler for it
Jun 16, 2011 · A "compiler" is any device that translates from one programming language to another. One of the nice things about having a C# compiler that turns C# into IL, and an IL compiler (the …
history - Why was the first compiler written before the first ...
Jul 28, 2014 · The first compiler was written by Grace Hopper in 1952 while the Lisp interpreter was written in 1958 by John McCarthy's student Steve Russell. Writing a compiler seems like a much …
Why doesn't Python need a compiler? - Software Engineering Stack …
Feb 26, 2012 · Just wondering (now that I've started with C++ which needs a compiler) why Python doesn't need a compiler? I just enter the code, save it as an exec, and run it. In C++ I have to make …
Understanding the differences: traditional interpreter, JIT compiler ...
I'm trying to understand the differences between a traditional interpreter, a JIT compiler, a JIT interpreter and an AOT compiler. An interpreter is just a machine (virtual or physical) that execu...
c - How does a compiler work when it's not directly compiling to ...
My compiler will act just as a parser. Well, then it is not a compiler, nor is it an interpreter. It is a parser. Is this how other languages like Python and Javascript work? or do they create their own machine …
Why are there so few C compilers?
Feb 19, 2015 · The question is based upon a false premise. Analog Devices, armcc, Bruce's C Compiler, the Bare-C Cross Compiler, the Borland compiler, the clang compiler, the Cosmic C …
Why was the Itanium processor difficult to write a compiler for?
Apr 17, 2015 · The compiler aspect was not the only aspect which was overly ambitious. Is there any reason why Intel didn't specify a "simple Itanium bytecode" language, and provide a tool that …
Does bootstrapping limit the achievable speed of the new compiler?
Compiling the compiler may take a while, but you now have a compiler that runs at the highest possible speed, and generates the fastest possible code. But while you develop the compiler, you will use the …
C++ - Is it bad practice to use compiler specific functions?
Dec 8, 2020 · Is it bad to use compiler-specific functions in your source? i.e Should I avoid using them? The answer is "it depends." A naive hand-rolled popcount function requires but a few lines of code …