Kaleidoscope: Implementing a Language with LLVM
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Nov 2007 10:09 UTC, submitted by Chris Lattner
General Development The LLVM Compiler System is being used for all sorts of interesting things these days. It basically provides an extremely modular and easy to use set of open source (BSD-licensed) compiler libraries that can be used to build various applications from. Despite this, many people don't really understand it, and are scared away by the breadth of the project or by compilers in general. The Kaleidoscope tutorial starts out from scratch and slowly builds up a simple language to show how LLVM can help out with this. We end up with a JIT compiler for a fairly interesting little language with less than 700 lines of code. Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg, once you start with LLVM, there are all sorts of things you can do.
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RE[4]: Lame tutorial.
by meianoite on Thu 8th Nov 2007 21:34 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Lame tutorial."
meianoite
Member since:
2006-04-05

If it's that bad. Why don't you improve it?


I modded you up for the general wisdom contained in your retort. However, notice that I'm criticising this horrid trend of nowadays where people believe that reading whatever is written in Wikipedia is enough to grasp a concept, any concept, and base their work on whatever shallow article comes up on WP.

Bottom line is: buy a book. Read a book. If for no other reason than being healthier for your eyes and blood flow. Some WP articles might be very thorough, but they're no substitute to the proper literature on any non-trivial subject.

(You'd never attempt to fix a modern car engine after reading Wikipedia articles on 4-stroke engines, would you?)

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RE[5]: Lame tutorial.
by John Nilsson on Fri 9th Nov 2007 17:30 in reply to "RE[4]: Lame tutorial."
John Nilsson Member since:
2005-07-06

Some WP articles might be very thorough, but they're no substitute to the proper literature on any non-trivial subject.

Agreed! It's an encyclopedia, a place to get a quick overview of the topic, enought to know what to look for next.

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