bytecode-vm-compiler A bytecode compiler and stack-based virtual machine built from scratch in TypeScript. Compiles a custom imperative language ("Bolt") through a full pipeline — lexer, recursive ...

A compiler for a subset of C, inspired by Ron Cain's original Small-C published in Dr. Dobb's Journal (May/June 1980), that compiles directly to JVM .class files — with no external libraries and no ...

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Last week, the newsletter ended in an anticlimax: the compiler was not able to optimize the emulated bytecode program, and the main culprit was the program counter inside the CPU struct. This week, we ...

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In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...

My intention was to write an article on how the Java Virtual Machine works until I realized that the JIT compiler deserves an article to itself. The Java Virtual Machine consists of a JIT type ...

In the quest for ever faster JavaScript, there has been a recurring refrain: why use JavaScript at all? JavaScript engines have been a major focus of browser developers for some years, and the result ...