Timeline for How do I create my own programming language and a compiler for it
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| May 23, 2014 at 6:50 | comment | added | Eric Lippert | @dhams: A device is any thing made for a particular purpose. Every compiler I've ever written was run on hardware that was purpose-built to allow compilers to exist. | |
| May 23, 2014 at 6:47 | comment | added | dharmendra | @EricLippert Compiler is not a device , device is something contains hardware.we can say a predefined program which having a set of rules to convert input data in to machine code | |
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| Jul 9, 2011 at 3:36 | comment | added | Eric Lippert | @Cyclotis04: Inform6 compiles to Z-code, which is a famous extremely early example of a bytecode-based virtual machine. That's how all those Infocom games in the 1980s could be both larger than memory and portable to multiple architectures; the games were compiled to z-code and then z-code interpreters with code memory paging were implemented for multiple machines. Nowadays of course you can run a zcode interpreter on a wristwatch if you need to, but back in the day that was high tech. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine for details. | |
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| Jun 16, 2011 at 13:19 | comment | added | Eric Lippert | @Thorbjørn: Let's be clear about the terminology. 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 "jitter") that turns IL into machine code, is that you get to write the C# compiler to IL (easy!), and put the processor-specific optimizations in the jitter. It's not that compiler optimizations are "not being done", it's that the jit compiler team does them for us. See blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/06/11/… | |
| Jun 16, 2011 at 8:48 | comment | added | user1249 | Have you written about to what degree compiler optimizations are not being done anymore as the CLR can do them automatically? | |
| Jun 15, 2011 at 23:19 | history | answered | Eric Lippert | CC BY-SA 3.0 |