Go with an existing educational language instead, and focus on learning about compilers. The following two are specifically designed for classroom use in compiler courses and by extension …

Feb 26, 2012 · The majority of modern high-performance language implementations combine both an interpreter and a compiler (or even several compilers) for maximum performance. Actually, …

I've seen several compiler bugs, reported a few myself (specifically, in F#). That said, I think compiler bugs are rare because people who write compilers are generally very comfortable …

Mar 21, 2017 · In programming languages, it is a compiler. Thus, the source for a compiler is the programming language (C), while the target is the bytecode (machine-level instructions). We …

Jul 30, 2015 · So when the compiler reaches x + y, instead of running lots of code that branches for many different types of x and y, the compiler quickly checks if we have strings again, and …

Jan 25, 2021 · A compiler operates at a logical level, not concerning itself with physical storage, but rather with groupings of 1's and 0's — several different kinds of groupings. The first …

(the compiler, itself, can be what is being compiled, from source, for the new architecture.) even a related new architecture needs lots of updates to the compiler to take advantage of the new …

Oct 23, 2015 · A C compiler that transforms C to LLVM IR, an LLVM backend compiler that transforms LLVM IR to x86 machine code, and an x86 CPU that executes that code. A C …

That way, the compiler sees only your code, plus those definitions; it never gets a look at the code (implementation) for the other bits. Note: The Compiler doesn't care that it doesn't know about …

Jan 1, 2012 · Since you want to learn how lexers work, I presume you actually want to know how lexer generators work. A lexer generator takes a lexical specification, which is a list of rules …