Learning about Compilers and Bytecode from Thorsten Ball
What do compilers do? What is the runtime of a language? What does it mean to compile something down to bytecode and what executes the bytecode. Throsten Ball answers these questions in this interview with Adam.
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Table Of Contents
- 02:33 - Why Build A Compiler?
- 07:35 - The Magic of Runtimes
- 12:07 - Writing Readable Code
- 16:05 - Compiler Frontends
- 18:53 - How interpreters work
- 20:21 - Why do we need compilers?
- 25:07 - The Ruby Runtime
- 27:07 - JIT Compilation
- 33:59 - Compiler Backend and Translation to Bytecode
- 36:03 - Bytecode
- 39:09 - Adding in Bytecode and Stack Machines vs Register Machines
- 43:58 - Why is it called Bytecode
- 45:54 - VMs are bytecode interpreters
- 46:39 - Lowering your Language
- 50:02 - Bryan Cantrill can't build nice websites
- 52:12 - Big and Small Compilers
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