Howto

This section contains several howto documents.

• Creating a toy language
  • Part 0 - preparation
  • Part 1 - textx
  • Part 2 - connecting the backend
  • Part 3 - translating the elements
  • Part 4 - Creating a linux executable
  • Final words
• How to write a new backend
  • Register description
  • Tokens
  • Instruction description
  • Relocations
  • Instruction groups
  • Instruction selection patterns
  • Architecture description
    • Code generating functions
    • Architecture information
• How to write an optimizer
  • The optimization
  • The implementation
• JITting
  • C-way
  • Python-way
  • Calling Python functions from native code
  • Benchmarking and call overheads
• Dealing with webassembly
  • Compiling wasm to native code
• Code instrumentation