meadori

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by meadori 9y ago
> is to compile down to an emulation of a straightforward machine (I really like MSP430 for this) What exactly do you mean by this? Direct object code emission? > the emulator is easier than the compiler, by a lot Yeah, definite +1 t
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by meadori 9y ago
I don't really know, but I would be suprised if that is the intent of the project because: 1. The maintainer of llgo is a Google employee (and a very talented LLVM engineer). 2. I don't imagine there would be tremendous dif
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by meadori 9y ago
I am somewhat confused by this. The LLVM project already has an official Go frontend that lowers to LLVM IR: * https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llgo/trunk/README.TXT
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by meadori 10y ago
I had a similar POV as well -- I went into reading this book thinking there would be exercises and projects to reinforce the ideas. In particular, the following sentence (and remaining paragraph) in Chapter 1 set me up for that: > T
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by meadori 10y ago
I feel like I am one of these people too. However, sometimes it seems really stressful (for me at least). I feel the pull of too many directions. Given such varied interests, how do you stay productive and get things done? Sometimes I fe
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by meadori 10y ago
Definitely an amazing person. Folks tend to primarily focus on his contributions to the PC ecosystem. I am surprised more don't mention his work on data-flow analysis. It was such a significant contribution to the compiler world.
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by meadori 11y ago
Having owned and read through "Introduction to Algorithms" for years I agree that it is a good book. However, recently I have been feeling like it is recommended way too often without thought. It is not the best when it comes t
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by meadori 11y ago
I enjoyed this presentation by Allison Kaptur on how to understand CPython better: http://pyvideo.org/video/3465/exploring-is-never-boring-unde... While it is focused on CPython, most of the techniques are applica