My first fifteen compilers (2019)
blog.sigplan.org71 points by azhenley 10 days ago
71 points by azhenley 10 days ago
(2017)
At the time (387 points, 76 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15153956 https://archive.is/gUVNw
2019 edit (388 points, 78 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20408011
Every browser can smooth scroll, please stop doing this in JS, manually.
I turn mine off, then you force it on me, and CTRL+F4 is an immediate reflex.
You should report it to sigplan.org. Complaining about it here won't make any difference.
There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html -
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
> CTRL+F4
What does this do on your computer? On mine it changes the workspace, which makes not much sense in context.
I don’t understand how to work with the intermediate language in such a back-to-front approach, wouldn’t you need to know in advance what pass to implement next so that the input to the current pass matches the output of your next, unimplemented, pass? To me, it seems like the contract is reversed
It sounds to me that Pass 1 is basically an assembly-to-assembly compiler which becomes the target of all the other passes and optimizations.