compiler.md

compiler

• [dynamic-recompilation]

• [assembly]

• Counterexamples in Type Systems

• Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers

  • Let's Build a Compiler! Jack Crenshaw
  • A Nanopass Framework for Compiler Education

• TinyCompiler: a compiler in a week-end

• Introducing the Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025

• Learn Wasm by building a simple compiler in JavaScript.

  • [web-assembly]

• Write Your Own Retro Compiler 2023 Free eBook

  • Lexical analysis
  • Syntax analysis
  • Code generation
  • Simple optimizations
  • The BDOS interface
  • The run time library

• How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it!

  • Exploring how "Hello World" in C becomes a binary

• Compiler Explorer: Matt Godbolt - Web based - See C code and compiled ASM (x86/Arm/riskV)

  • It highlights with colors what parts of the [c] code is turned into the ASM bits [assembly]

• create-your-own-compiler

  • interactive web tutorial for building a compiler!

• Teaching and Learning Compilers Incrementally

CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course

• Introduction to Compilers and Language Design
  • A free online textbook by Douglas Thain

tokenisation BNF

Compilers optimise into something that is unrecognizable but performs the same function

• Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python

• Let's write a compiler

  • Let's write a compiler, part 1: Introduction, selecting a language, and doing some planning
  • Let's write a compiler, part 2: A lexer
  • Let's write a compiler, part 3: A parser
  • Let's write a compiler, part 4: Testing

• A simple program reducer for any language

  • reducer?

• Dear Sir, You Have Built a Compiler

  • A parser, an intermediate representation, transformation passes, and a code generator. Dear Sir, you have built a compiler.

• [[linker]]

• Branchless Coding in Go

  • [branch-prediction]

• Branchless Programming: Why "If" is Sloowww... and what we can do about it! YouTube 20min

• Tree-Shaking: A Reference Guide

  • tree-shaking means removing unreachable code (also known as dead code) from a bundle

• Static Analysis at GitHub #StaticAnalysis

  • How code is analysed

• cccu-uk/FCC_Exercises/blob/master/content/Programming_Computers/programming_computers.md

  • Seb

• Sometimes, it is a compiler bug: My journey in finding and fixing a bug in a C++ toolchain.

• Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter

  • LLVM19 regression