Folkert de Vries (Nov 10 2023 at 16:55): Folkert de Vries (Nov 10 2023 at 16:55):I did a talk at the dutch rust meetup on compiler performance and our assembly backends
(sadly audience audio was not recorded, there was lots of laughter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCVfofYsWHU
Anton (Nov 10 2023 at 17:23):Excellent talk @Folkert de Vries!
Folkert de Vries (Nov 10 2023 at 17:43):thanks!
Brendan Hansknecht (Nov 10 2023 at 18:00):Great talk. Very good summary of a lot of work and annoyances.
Notification Bot (Nov 10 2023 at 20:22):17 messages were moved from this topic to #ideas > IR interpreter by Richard Feldman.
Brian Carroll (Nov 11 2023 at 09:56):Great talk! Thanks for the mention!
Brian Carroll (Nov 11 2023 at 10:06):One audience question made me think: why don't we use an interpreter for debug builds?
Could we have done that, I wonder?
We probably could have made something that crawls over the mono IR and executes things. Build it in Rust and then we have a dev back end for anything Rust targets.
I think the trickiest parts would be to do with making and receiving calls from the host. I think you kind of have to compile something for that, right?
Brian Carroll (Nov 11 2023 at 10:07):(Not suggesting this as something to actually do, just pondering it out of curiosity!)
Folkert de Vries (Nov 11 2023 at 11:50):yes, the moved thread has some ideas in that direction. an interpreter could be useful for compile-time evaluation and in a repl. For actual programs it's trickier because we don't control main
Luke Boswell (Nov 11 2023 at 22:36):Just watched this @Folkert de Vries and really enjoyed it. Had to laugh at the international shift system for arm implementation :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
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