Building a Compiler - Optimization and Register Allocation

My compiler works, but it's painfully inefficient. It's time to invent a solution to tracking register state, so that we don't need to do quite so much via the stack. It turns out this is a bit more complicated than my previous back of the napkin sketches!
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[@olucasromero]

Why don’t use llvm?
Good video. Would like if you make it shorter for TH-cam instead a raw live
I will follow the progress ✌🏻

[@Jack-hd3ov]

Where is the fun in just running someone else's code?

[@olucasromero]

@@Jack-hd3ov I see, quite right but I think llvm make the process good, not taken so much responsibility from compiler itself

[@TomMarksTalksCodeLIVE]

I'm going to make a video about this whole process and put it on my other channel. This is the livestream dump channel, these are _slightly_ edited though! Just to cut out bathroom breaks, the longer intro, etc

[@olucasromero]

@@TomMarksTalksCodeLIVE ohh I see, nice work! I will follow your journey

[@kamertonaudiophileplayer847]

Why everyone writes a compiler in Rust?

[@TotalTimoTime]

Its fast and very safe. Very good language choice for a compiler.

[@TomMarksTalksCodeLIVE]

It's a good project for learning a language, and lots of people are interested in Rust. As @TotalTimoTime mentioned the memory safety features are also very good for making this kind of thing relatively bulletproof.

[@isaac10231]

Is that neovim?

[@TomMarksTalksCodeLIVE]

Yes!