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Re:I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck by steveklabnik on Monday August 30, 2010 @10:43AM (#1646305)
> This is a great project for learning how to use LLVM because there is nothing to add complexity.

Speaking as someone who's written a very simple Brainfuck interpreter, this is absolutely spot-on. As someone who'd never written an interpreter before, I didn't want to have to think about the language itself, just focus on getting the absolute fundamentals down.

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Re:I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck by InclinedPlane on Monday August 30, 2010 @03:11PM (#1647196)
More so, because it's Brainfuck you don't have to worry about people mistaking it for a serious project, so you can concentrate on the educational aspect rather than fine-tuning the performance, fixing every single bug, etc.
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