Re:Hello. I'm a compiler
by Marazan on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @04:17AM
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Compilers are intimidating.
I mean, the basics of parsing and lexing are easy enough to understand & do and forming an AST is straightforward but all the "clever stuff" adfer that, all the hundreds and thousands of optimisation tests that are done - they are mind boggling.
Each one by itself is pretty straightfoward but start adding them up and layering them on top of each other and it gets crazy pretty quick.
I mean, the basics of parsing and lexing are easy enough to understand & do and forming an AST is straightforward but all the "clever stuff" adfer that, all the hundreds and thousands of optimisation tests that are done - they are mind boggling.
Each one by itself is pretty straightfoward but start adding them up and layering them on top of each other and it gets crazy pretty quick.