
How to write a very basic compiler - Software Engineering Stack …
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 …
programming languages - Why doesn't Python need a compiler?
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 …
How Does A Compiler Work? - Software Engineering Stack Exchange
A compiler is a program that translates the source code for another program from a programing language into executable code. The source code is typically in a high-level programming …
compiler - Does an interpreter produce machine code? - Software ...
Oct 23, 2015 · A Java compiler produces code for the JVM. So the target machine of a compiler can be a virtual machine that is not executed directly by the hardware. The main difference …
history - Why was the first compiler written before the first ...
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 …
Understanding the differences: traditional interpreter, JIT compiler ...
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...
Is the microsoft C compiler (cl.exe) a compiler driver or a compiler ...
The rest of the MSVC C++ compiler is in various DLLs. The C/C++ compiler driver is officially cl.exe, but many of the driver functions are provided by MsBuild. Other executables include …
What is the history of the C compiler? - Software Engineering …
The first C compiler written by Dennis Ritchie used a recursive descent parser, incorporated specific knowledge about the PDP-11, and relied on an optional machine-specific optimizer to …
Why are there so few C compilers?
Feb 19, 2015 · The question is based upon a false premise. Analog Devices, armcc, Bruce's C Compiler, the Bare-C Cross Compiler, the Borland compiler, the clang compiler, the Cosmic C …
performance - JIT compiler for C, C++, and the likes - Software ...
Is there any just-in-time compiler out there for compiled languages, such as C and C++? (The first names that come to mind are Clang and LLVM! But I don't think they currently support it.) …