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Here's a good talk about the Go assembler backend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KINIAgRpkDA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KINIAgRpkDA Spoiler: they're nea

Here's a good talk about the Go assembler backend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KINIAgRpkDA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KINIAgRpkDA Spoiler: they're nearly to the point (maybe now they've achieved it fully) of autogenerating a new language backend from ISA documentation PDFs! Bring that up next time someone complains about Go not using LLVM.

shouldbworking 9y ago
Does this make targeting new ISA's trivial?
- AstralStorm 9y ago
  Not really, writing a good enough formal ISA spec is quite hard. More so if the architecture is quirky.
gcatlin 9y ago
Slides: https://talks.golang.org/2016/asm.slide https://talks.golang.org/2016/asm.slide