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0 pointssklogic10y ago0 comments

I am talking about the backend optimisations, not the frontend parts. Ada frontend got tons of sweet static information for the backend to consume.

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nickpsecurity10y ago

That makes more sense. Did you ever work on any Ada compiler I might have heard of?

sklogicOP10y ago

Nothing fancy, I was simply implementing a subset of Ada for fun. I find it is the quickest way to learn or explore a language - write a compiler for a subset of it.

Frontend was awful and I never finished it, but the LLVM-style backend wad very easy to build.

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