How can I write a basic compiler to convert a static text into a machine readable file? The next step will be introducing variables into the compiler; imagine that we want to write a compiler which compile …

Jun 16, 2011 · A "compiler" is any device that translates from one programming language to another. One of the nice things about having a C# compiler that turns C# into IL, and an IL compiler (the …

Jul 28, 2014 · The first compiler was written by Grace Hopper in 1952 while the Lisp interpreter was written in 1958 by John McCarthy's student Steve Russell. Writing a compiler seems like a much …

I'm trying to understand the differences between a traditional interpreter, a JIT compiler, a JIT interpreter and an AOT compiler. An interpreter is just a machine (virtual or physical) that execu...

Feb 26, 2012 · Just wondering (now that I've started with C++ which needs a compiler) why Python doesn't need a compiler? I just enter the code, save it as an exec, and run it. In C++ I have to make …

Jul 1, 2014 · Many compilers have warning messages to warn the programmers about potential runtime, logic and performance errors, most times, you quickly fix them, but what about unfixable warnings? …

Jun 24, 2016 · This answer and the comments added to it show a way to disable several compiler warnings using #pragma directives. Why would one want to do that? Usually the warnings are there …

And there is a surprising answer: because people actually use Python on platforms for which no C++ and no C99 compiler exists! When the Forth-inspired threaded-code interpreter optimizations were …

Compiling the compiler may take a while, but you now have a compiler that runs at the highest possible speed, and generates the fastest possible code. But while you develop the compiler, you will use the …

The difference between what the compiler generated and optimal code was more significant for small routines than big ones, so a dozen or so lines of assembly could in some cases allow a ten-fold …