A Simple Compiler Tutorial


-- intro
https://github.com/SeaOfNodes
https://github.com/SeaOfNodes/Simple

A compiler Book written as a series of Chapters, each chapter adds a new feature and builds on the prior.
The end result produces ELF files for x86, Arm, Risc5.

-- Poll the audience, what level are we at?

"weak SSA knowledge"

- Walk & Talk chapters 1-4
- - ReadMe's.  Visit lattice.
- EasySSA, do first half
(10mins)


- Walk & Talk chapters 5-7
- EasySSA, 2nd half
(10mins)


- Walk & Talk chapters 8-9
- Sea-of-Nodes, 1st half
(10mins)

- Memory, Chapter 10
- Sea-of-Nodes, 2nd half
(10 mins)


Global Code Motion
- 1 or 2 slides

"Sugar"
- Floats, narrow ints, refs, constructors, mutability, var/val,
  update-operators
- 1 or 2 slides




--- Q&A Directed