Building Your Own Compiler the Slightly Easier Way With LLVM • Erik Corry • YOW! 2016 | GOTO Conferences

Erik Corry discusses the process of building a custom computer language, highlighting the accessibility of modern tools like the LLVM compiler framework. He shares his past experience with the V8 JavaScript engine and his current work on the Dart project, emphasizing user experience and programmer productivity. Corry then demonstrates building a simple regular expression compiler in Dart, showcasing parsing, abstract syntax tree generation, and code generation using LLVM. He touches on the stack overflow programming technique and concludes with a performance comparison against GREP, along with insights on LLVM's code optimization capabilities.

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Building Your Own Compiler the Slightly Easier Way With LLVM • Erik Corry • YOW! 2016

GOTO Conferences

Introduction to Language Design and the LLVM Compiler Framework

Building a Regular Expression Parser in Dart

Visualizing the Abstract Syntax Tree and Introduction to LLVM Code Generation

Generating LLVM Intermediate Representation for Regular Expressions

Completing the Code Generation and Performance Comparison

Building Your Own Compiler the Slightly Easier Way With LLVM • Erik Corry • YOW! 2016

GOTO Conferences

00:04Introduction to Language Design and the LLVM Compiler Framework

Introduction to Language Design and the LLVM Compiler Framework

04:42Building a Regular Expression Parser in Dart

Building a Regular Expression Parser in Dart

13:50Visualizing the Abstract Syntax Tree and Introduction to LLVM Code Generation

Visualizing the Abstract Syntax Tree and Introduction to LLVM Code Generation

21:19Generating LLVM Intermediate Representation for Regular Expressions

Generating LLVM Intermediate Representation for Regular Expressions

28:30Completing the Code Generation and Performance Comparison

Completing the Code Generation and Performance Comparison