Chapter 3. Extending the Frontend and Adding JIT Support
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Handling decision making paradigms – if/then/else constructs
- Generating code for loops
- Handling user-defined operators – binary operators
- Handling user-defined operators – unary operators
- Adding JIT support
Introduction
In the last chapter, the basics of the frontend component for a language were defined. This included defining tokens for different types of expressions, writing a lexer to tokenize a stream of input, chalking out a skeleton for the abstract syntax tree of various expressions, writing a parser, and generating code for the language. Also, how various optimizations can be hooked to the frontend was explained.
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