Hacker News with Generative AI: Compilers

C Compiler to SPIR-V (github.com/heroseh)
HCC is a C compiler that allows you to compile your C codebase (with limitations) to SPIR-V for the Vulkan graphics API. This means you can share struct's, enum's and functions between your CPU & GPU code. HCC targets the future of GPU programming so is designed around features such as bindless resources and scalar alignment. This makes it easier to interop with the GPU and focus on writing shader code without writing your own shader build system.
C, Compilers, Graphics Programming, Vulkan, SPIR-V
87 points by bwidlar 5 days ago | 11 comments
AMD Developing Next-Gen Fortran Compiler Based on Flang, Optimized for AMD GPUs (phoronix.com)
AMD today went public with details on the "AMD Next-Gen Fortran Compiler" as a new Fortran compiler they are working on based on LLVM's Flang.
AMD, Fortran, Compilers, GPUs, LLVM
5 points by sandwichsphinx 7 days ago | 0 comments
TinyCC Memory and Bounds Checks (bellard.org)
TinyCC (aka TCC) is a small but hyper fast C compiler.
Programming, C Language, Compilers, Optimization
8 points by sigsev_251 9 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: Jaws – a JavaScript to WASM ahead-of-time compiler (github.com/drogus)
Jaws is a JavaScript to WebAssembly compiler written in Rust. It is similar to porffor in a way it also results in a standalone WASM binary that can be executed without an interpreter, but it takes a different implementation approach.
JavaScript, WebAssembly, Rust, Compilers
290 points by drogus 12 days ago | 107 comments
Gccrs: An Alternative Compiler for Rust (rust-lang.org)
gccrs is a work-in-progress alternative compiler for Rust being developed as part of the GCC project. GCC is a collection of compilers for various programming languages that all share a common compilation framework. You may have heard about gccgo, gfortran, or g++, which are all binaries within that project, the GNU Compiler Collection. The aim of gccrs is to add support for the Rust programming language to that collection, with the goal of having the exact same behavior as rustc.
Rust, Compilers, Programming Languages, Open Source
11 points by thunderbong 13 days ago | 2 comments
Why are ML compilers so hard? (2021) (petewarden.com)
Even before the first version of TensorFlow was released, the XLA project was integrated as a “domain-specific compiler” for its machine learning graphs.
Machine Learning, Compilers, Artificial Intelligence
40 points by _feynon 24 days ago | 4 comments
Fitting a Forth in 512 bytes (2021) (compilercrim.es)
Software is full of circular dependencies if you look deep enough. Compilers written in the language they compile are the most obvious example, but not the only one. To compile a kernel, you need a running kernel. Linkers, build systems, shells. Even text editors, if you want to write the code instead of just downloading it.
Programming Languages, Software, Compilers, Kernel Development
92 points by whereistimbo 26 days ago | 22 comments
A DSL for peephole transformation rules of integer operations in the PyPy JIT (pypy.org)
As is probably apparent from the sequence of blog posts about the topic in the last year, I have been thinking about and working on integer optimizations in the JIT compiler a lot.
Programming, Compilers, Optimization
108 points by todsacerdoti 29 days ago | 11 comments
Optimizers need a rethink (typesanitizer.com)
Intended audience: People working on, interested in, or adjacent to compiler and/or database development, and people who’ve been bitten by compiler/database optimizer failures in the past.
Compilers, Databases, Optimization
149 points by ingve 29 days ago | 166 comments
A Lisp compiler to ARM written in Lisp (ulisp.com)
This is a simple experimental Lisp compiler, written in uLisp, that will compile a Lisp function into ARM machine code. My aim was to make the compiler simple enough so that its listing will fit on a single sheet of A4 paper.
Programming Languages, ARM Architecture, Compilers
23 points by diggan 30 days ago | 2 comments
Show HN: Optimizing compiler for a large subset of C, written in Rust (github.com/xqb64)
This is a Rust implementation of the C compiler from Nora Sandler's book.
Programming Languages, Open Source, Compilers, Rust, C
11 points by xqb64 30 days ago | 6 comments
Workaround Clang v15 AArch64 miscompile that affects parallel collection (github.com/cisco)
This patch avoids a miscompile using Clang v15 on macOS.
Programming, Compilers, macOS, Bug Fixes
70 points by gus_massa 35 days ago | 9 comments
Optimizing the Ion compiler back end (spidermonkey.dev)
In September, machine learning engineers at Mozilla filed a bug report indicating that Firefox was consuming excessive memory and CPU resources while running Microsoft’s ONNX Runtime (a machine learning library) compiled to WebAssembly.
WebAssembly, Optimization, Performance, JavaScript, Compilers
164 points by undercut 36 days ago | 40 comments
The optimised version of 7-Zip can't be built from source (pileofhacks.dev)
If I was going to lean more into clickbait, I’d title this “7-Zip isn’t open source”. It’s likely if you’re on Linux you’re actually using a fork of it called p7zip, rather than the upstream project. If you’re on Fedora 40, you’re using a years-old version 1.
Software, Open Source, Linux, Compilers
49 points by todsacerdoti 39 days ago | 26 comments
A Lisp compiler to RISC-V written in Lisp (ulisp.com)
This is a simple experimental Lisp compiler, written in uLisp, that will compile a Lisp function into RISC-V machine code. You can run the compiler on the RISC-V core of a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (or another RP2350-based board):
Lisp, Compilers, RISC-V, Embedded Systems
248 points by chrisjj 41 days ago | 72 comments
An Update on Gccrs Development (lwn.net)
One concern that has often been expressed about the Rust language is that there is only one compiler for it.
Rust, Compilers, Programming Languages
44 points by signa11 41 days ago | 17 comments
GCC 15 Un-Deprecates Itanium IA-64 Linux Support (phoronix.com)
The GCC 14 compiler marked Itanium IA-64 support as obsolete with plans to remove that Intel architecture in GCC 15. But for now at least the Itanium Linux compiler support has seen some reprieve with it being un-deprecated.
Software, Compilers, Linux, Architecture, Intel
5 points by rbanffy 43 days ago | 0 comments
PeachPie Compiler: Compile and run PHP on top of .NET runtime (peachpie.io)
Compile and run PHP on top the modern, secure and highly performant .NET runtime.
PHP, .NET, Programming Languages, Compilers
69 points by lemper 44 days ago | 20 comments
A Compiler Bug (2023) (rsaxvc.net)
Around 10 years ago, I found a bug in a vendor's compiler.
Software, Bugs, Compilers
39 points by pbrowne011 48 days ago | 10 comments
Prep: Golang Comptime (github.com/pijng)
prep is a small Go tool that enables compile-time function evaluation. By using prep.Comptime, you can evaluate functions at build time, replacing them with their computed results. Just like comptime from Zig. Except it's not.
Golang, Programming Languages, Tools, Compilers
106 points by Seb-C 55 days ago | 25 comments
Register Allocation in the Go Compiler (redhat.com)
Go, Compilers, Optimization
69 points by jnord 56 days ago | 9 comments
The lost language extensions of MetaWare's High C compiler (2023) (duriansoftware.com)
This book I got in a pile of FM TOWNS books turns out to be a lot more interesting that I was expecting an '80s C compiler manual to be.
Programming, History, Compilers, Software
299 points by PaulDavisThe1st 57 days ago | 102 comments
Rust panics under the hood, and implementing them in .NET (fractalfir.github.io)
I am currently working on a Rust to .NET compiler, rustc_codegen_clr. To get it to work, I need to implement many Rust features using .NET APIs. One of such features is panicking and unwinding.
Rust, .NET, Programming Languages, Compilers
145 points by todsacerdoti 59 days ago | 80 comments
Compiling to Assembly from Scratch (keleshev.com)
Have you been trying to learn how compilers and programming languages work?
Programming, Compilers, Assembly Language
133 points by AlexeyBrin 60 days ago | 49 comments
ts-blank-space is a fast type-stripping compiler (bloomberg.github.io)
ts-blank-space is a fast type-stripping compiler that converts TypeScript to JavaScript. It supports a modern subset of TypeScript by erasing the types and replacing them with whitespace. That's it. It is not a type checker and does not perform any other code transformations.
TypeScript, JavaScript, Compilers, Performance
47 points by joatmon-snoo 62 days ago | 46 comments
Show HN: ts-blank-space – fast TypeScript type-stripper (bloomberg.github.io)
ts-blank-space is a fast type-stripping compiler that converts TypeScript to JavaScript. It supports a modern subset of TypeScript by erasing the types and replacing them with whitespace.
TypeScript, JavaScript, Compilers, Software, Open Source
22 points by tchetwin 63 days ago | 4 comments
A high-performance, zero-overhead, extensible Python compiler using LLVM (github.com/exaloop)
Codon is a high-performance Python implementation that compiles to native machine code without any runtime overhead.
Python, Compilers, LLVM, Performance
241 points by wspeirs 64 days ago | 93 comments
LLVM 19.1.0 Released (llvm.org)
New Releases, Software, Compilers
9 points by zmodem 65 days ago | 0 comments
A new Windows CE x86 compiler in 2024 (enlyze.com)
At ENLYZE we need to deal with operating systems from the last century on customer machines everyday.
Windows CE, Compilers, Legacy Software
35 points by ladyanita22 69 days ago | 2 comments
Writing a Lisp compiler (Lisp to assembly) from scratch in JavaScript (2018) (eatonphil.com)
In this post we'll write a simple compiler in Javascript (on Node) without any third-party libraries. Our goal is to take an input program like (+ 1 (+ 2 3)) and produce an output assembly program that does these operations to produce 6 as the exit code. The resulting compiler can be found here.
Programming, Compilers, JavaScript, Assembly Language
71 points by selvan 70 days ago | 6 comments