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Modernizing Compiler Design for Carbon Toolchain - Chandler Carruth - CppNow 2023

CppNow · talk · Watch on YouTube

Compilers, interpreters & program analysisSoftware performance & optimizationC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages

What it is

Chandler Carruth's CppNow 2023 talk on modernizing compiler design for the Carbon toolchain, using data-oriented design and modern hardware assumptions. It covers lexing, parsing and compact data structures aimed at compiler performance.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a recent take on rethinking compiler architecture, and cited in discussions of flattened ASTs and fast lexers.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “I recommend a watch of this for a recent take on trying to change how we think of these.”

    Recent take on rethinking compiler architecture, an open research field.

    di4na, 2023-08 · Recommendation · in “How to speed up the Rust compiler in August 2023”

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Topics: carbon language, data-oriented design, lexing, parsing, compiler performance, c++

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