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jbarham on Feb 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Engineering a Compiler, 2nd Edition is out

If you want to look at a real-world compiler, check out the Go suite of "gc" compilers, which are mostly written by Ken Thompson. The source for the Go ARM compiler is at http://golang.org/src/cmd/5g/, or you you can browse the entire Go source tree at http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse.

The Go compilers are very fast. For most of the code I've developed (several hundred lines per package) I rarely have to wait more than 0.1 seconds to compile and link on my 2.4GHz i5.

singular on Feb 10, 2011 [–]

Agreed, go rocks :)

Keep in mind that a lot of the logic is shared between backends, so check out http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/cmd/gc for the core stuff too.

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