Can you give an example of this? Most of the compilers I've seen have excellent code bases, with good separation between the different components, probably because compilers are so well-studied. It can be surprising what the most productive part of the compiler is to optimize. Often the lexer is heavily optimized due to its outsized impact on performance, but even then, the code looks idiomatic to me.
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Can you give an example of this? Most of the compilers I've seen have excellent code bases, with good separation between the different components, probably because compilers are so well-studied. It can be surprising what the most productive part of the compiler is to optimize. Often the lexer is heavily optimized due to its outsized impact on performance, but even then, the code looks idiomatic to me.
- Scanner.Scan() https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/go/scanner/scan...
- scan() https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/blob/master/src/comp...
- Lexer::LexTokenInternal() https://github.com/llvm-mirror/clang/blob/master/lib/Lex/Lex...
All three examples are heavily optimized and hand-written but they’re still clear and easy to follow.