thejameskyle/the-super-tiny-compiler

Features

• Compiler Reference Implementations - Provides a complete, studyable implementation of a compiler to demonstrate the compilation process.
• Educational Compilers - Serves as a toy compiler project designed to teach the fundamentals of compiler construction.
• Language Implementation Guides - Demonstrates the fundamental components of language design and implementation from scratch.
• Compiler Construction Tutorials - Provides a practical tutorial on building a functional compiler through a simplified end-to-end process.
• Stack-Based Virtual Machines - Ships a stack-based virtual machine to execute the compiled instructions.
• Recursive Descent Parsers - Uses recursive descent parsing to traverse token streams and construct a syntax tree.
• Architecture Demonstrations - Provides a stripped-down compiler that demonstrates the core architecture of lexical analysis, parsing, and code generation.
• Minimalist Toolchains - Implements a minimal compiler to study lexing, parsing, and code generation.
• Internal Tree Representations - Implements an abstract syntax tree to decouple the parser from the code generator.
• Virtual Memory Layouts - Provides linear memory mapping for storing variables and constants during program execution.
• Single-Pass Generators - Emits target assembly instructions in a single pass over the syntax tree.
• Linear Tokenizers - Implements a lexer that converts raw source text into a sequential stream of categorized tokens.
• Compiler Construction - A simplified example of modern compiler architecture in JavaScript.
• Compiler Development - A simplified, readable example of a modern compiler.
• Compilers and Interpreters - Educational compiler project.

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