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> You're missing the forest for the trees. What's the tiniest x86-64 code generator that can bootstrap John McCarthy's meta-circular evaluator, I don't think I
by tekknolagi 6y ago
> You're missing the forest for the trees. What's the tiniest x86-64 code generator that can bootstrap John McCarthy's meta-circular evaluator,
I don't think I am, and that's explicitly not the focus of the series. The goal is to learn about writing a Lisp compiler and to learn about x86-64. I don't care if I compile more in C than I need to.