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> Fil-C is a personal passion project by Filip Pizlo. Do I understand correctly that this project is based on the work of just one person, Filip Pizlo? If so,
by aniviacat 5mo ago
> Fil-C is a personal passion project by Filip Pizlo.
Do I understand correctly that this project is based on the work of just one person, Filip Pizlo? If so, that's amazing.
- pizlonator 5mo agoMostly. A handful of people have made some very nice contributions though
- rurban 5mo agoSo you just need safe unicode identifiers I guess, fixing the longstanding unicode C11 spec bug, which made identifiers unidentifiable. Restricting to ASCII would be safest. In my rcc compiler I use my libu8ident
- chubot 5mo agoI came around to it a few weeks late, but Zef and this article by Filip are also great work! https://zef-lang.dev/implementation https://zef-lang.dev/implementation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843194 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843194 It has list of more than 20 optimizations for interpreters, with measured speedups. I'm pretty sure I was looking for something like this 3-5 years ago, but it didn't exist
- rossjudson 5mo agoOne person who spent 15 years learning and building in the domain. He very much knows what he's doing, what questions to ask, and what machines do.