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| author | Cliff Click <cliffc@acm.org> | 2023-08-19 08:59:38 -0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-08-19 08:59:38 -0700 |
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@@ -1,2 +1,10 @@ # Simple A Simple showcase for the Sea-of-Nodes compiler IR + +This repo is intended to demonstrate the Sea-of-Nodes compiler IR. +The Sea-of-Nodes is the core IR inside of HotSpot's C2 compiler and Google's V8 compiler and Sun/Oracle's Graal compiler. +Since we are show casing the SoN IR, the *language* being implemented is less important. +We're using a very simple language similar to C or Java, but with far fewer features. +The Sea-of-Nodes is used for machine code generation in these industrial strength systems - but for this demonstration the backend is both difficult and less important. +This repo also is not intended to be a complete language in any sense, and so the backend will probably start with levering C or Java. + |