Re: Intermediate Language Design?

Vladimir Makarov <vmakarov@cygnus.com>
7 Oct 1998 23:05:59 -0400

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From: Vladimir Makarov <vmakarov@cygnus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 7 Oct 1998 23:05:59 -0400
Organization: Cygnus Solutions
References: 98-10-045
Keywords: design, question

Felix Mish wrote:


> I am implementing a simple interpreter. I plan to separate the parsing
> and interpreting process. The source files are treated by the parser
> and generate a binary form intermediate language. The interpreter take
> the binary intermediate language and interprets it.


You could look at juice project. Its IL is so called slim binary
(compressed abstract trees). Another interesting thing is that the IL
is more compact than compressed sources or executables or java byte
code. The scheme of juice work is quite unusual


SOURCE FILE
      |
      v
|Parser| ==>Slim binary ==>generator+optimizer+execution


You can find information about slim binary and juice on


http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz


Vlad Makarov, Gcc software engineer, Cygnus Soultions
http://visitweb.com/vmakarov

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