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Whose baseline (compiler) is it anyway?

• mappu 3y ago
  More info on Github: https://github.com/titzer/wizard-engine https://github.com/titzer/wizard-engine
• chrisaycock 3y ago
  This paper is the first time I seen mention of the Virgil programming language, from the same author: https://github.com/titzer/virgil https://github.com/titzer/virgil
  • msla 3y ago
    Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29756138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29756138 I wonder if it has grown a link step since then.
    • titzer 3y ago
      Still no "link" step. Wizard cheats a little; it has a "pregen" step that can run the interpreter and stub generators and write the machine code back into reserved data (really, just a byte array) in the ELF file. That saves about 350 microseconds of startup time. If pregen hasn't happened, it will just generate the interpreter's machine code at startup.
  • saagarjha 3y ago
    ‘titzer is active here and talks about it occasionally :)
• throw0101b 3y ago
  Meta: I'm guessing this is a play on name of the television series. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whose_Line_Is_It_Anyway%3F_(British_TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whose_Line_Is_It_Anyway%3F_(Br... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whose_Line_Is_It_Anyway%3F_(American_TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whose_Line_Is_It_Anyway%3F_(Am...