compiler

an x86 compiler written in ruby

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an x86 compiler written in ruby

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Observed mentions: 2010-09-25 18:37:28 UTC to 2011-08-26 11:02:05 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
Sep 2010	2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Oct 2010	2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Nov 2010	2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 2010	2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 2011	2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 2011	2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 2011	2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 2011	2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 2011	2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 2011	2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 2011	2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Aug 2011	2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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telemachos·Aug 26, 2011

A bit of Googling found this blog post[1] which lists a number of Crenshaw-based variants. Two other quick finds: a more readable pdf version of the Crenshaw tutorial itself[2], and "an x86 compiler written in Ruby"[3] made by following along in the Crenshaw tutorial. [1] http://blog.spacesocket.com/2011/06/24/lets-build-a-compiler... [2] http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/compiler.pdf [3] https://github.com/samsonjs/compiler

In Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.

sjs·Oct 23, 2010

Heh, just take a look at my github repos: http://github.com/samsonjs Highlights: * http://github.com/samsonjs/Mojo.Ext * http://github.com/samsonjs/compiler * http://github.com/samsonjs/elisp.js * http://github.com/samsonjs/elschemo

In Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

sjs·Sep 25, 2010

I don't know if it's that important as Pascal is pretty straight forward. I was able to follow along[1] and translate Pascal to Ruby on the fly even though I don't really know any Pascal. I certainly understand the resulting Pascal-ish language. I have a feeling that most people with the will to read a tutorial on compilers, and actually make it through the first chapter, are smart enough and work hard enough to figure it out. [1] In case anyone's interested: http://github.com/samsonjs/compiler instead of emitting assembly instructions it emits x86 machine code directly.

In Let’s Build a Compiler (1995)