Whats the difference between an interpreted language and one compiled to a VM? [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: Interpreted vs Compiled: A useful distinction? (7 answers) Closed 10 years ago. It occurs to me that there’s not a heck of a lot of difference between $>python module.py And: $>javac module.java $>java module.class The former compiles to an intermediate language (python bytecode) and executes the program. The latter […]
How to support mixed grammars?
I am currently writing a grammar for a programming language (PowerBuilder) and I am also collecting documentation about parsing and compilers creation.
Programming Language Parser (in Java) – What would be a better design alternative for a special case?
Background I’m currently designing my own programming language as a research project. I have most of the grammar done and written down as context-free grammar, and it should be working as is. – Now I’m working on the actual compiler that should translate the language into x86 binary assembly code, more specifically, I am working […]
Compiler Linking: How to handle circular references?
I’m currently writing a compiler for a new language and I’m struggling with the linking aspect of new Types when there exists a circular reference.
High-level language to assembly
If assembly language is only a readable way to represent machine code, then why are HLLs converted to assembly first and then to machine code?
Dynamic choice of compilers?
An application has the following logic:
Why would more CPU cores on virtual machine slow compile times?
[edit#2] If anyone from VMWare can hit me up with a copy of VMWare Fusion, I’d be more than happy to do the same as a VirtualBox vs VMWare comparison. Somehow I suspect the VMWare hypervisor will be better tuned for hyperthreading (see my answer too)
Could implicit static methods cause problems?
This is a purely hypothetical question.
How are operators organized in memory
How are operators organized/saved in the memory in context of a programming language. Are they procedures/functions saved somewhere and compilers just manipulate things to call these procs whenever the operators are used in the program?
Can I get a C++ Compiler to instantiate objects at compile time
I am writing some code that has a very large number of reasonably simple objects and I would like them the be created at compile time. I would think that a compiler would be able to do this, but I have not been able to figure out how.