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0 pointsjosephg5y ago0 comments

Interesting to know! But even if those guys made super fast front ends, they would have been always limited by the speed of the llvm optimizer and code generation backend. Writing a compiler on llvm isn’t the same as writing a compiler from scratch.

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novok5y ago

In swift's case it's a single threaded frontend that is fairly inefficient: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/CompilerPerfor...

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointsjosephg5y ago0 comments

Interesting to know! But even if those guys made super fast front ends, they would have been always limited by the speed of the llvm optimizer and code generation backend. Writing a compiler on llvm isn’t the same as writing a compiler from scratch.

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novok5y ago

In swift's case it's a single threaded frontend that is fairly inefficient: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/CompilerPerfor...

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse