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Re:Introducing the B3 JIT compiler by sklogic on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:48PM (#11106944)
I am talking about the backend optimisations, not the frontend parts. Ada frontend got tons of sweet static information for the backend to consume.
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Re:Introducing the B3 JIT compiler by nickpsecurity on Monday February 15, 2016 @07:43PM (#11107170)
That makes more sense. Did you ever work on any Ada compiler I might have heard of?
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Re:Introducing the B3 JIT compiler by sklogic on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @07:51AM (#11109478)
Nothing fancy, I was simply implementing a subset of Ada for fun. I find it is the quickest way to learn or explore a language - write a compiler for a subset of it.

Frontend was awful and I never finished it, but the LLVM-style backend wad very easy to build.

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