I recently wrote a brainfuck compiler using Rust [0], but I targeted x86-64 asm directly. I implemented some very basic optimization (as you show at the bottom

I recently wrote a brainfuck compiler using Rust [0], but I targeted x86-64 asm directly. I implemented some very basic optimization (as you show at the bottom of your post), but I'd imagine llvm is able to take things much further. I'd be curious to see a performance comparison. [0]: https://github.com/JoshMcguigan/nerve https://github.com/JoshMcguigan/nerve