| ▲ | cornstalks 6 days ago |
| You've done some great work but I have to call BS with this claim: > I'm the only person who ever implemented all of it. Sean Baxter is an easy counter example. |
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| ▲ | WalterBright 6 days ago | parent [-] |
| I don't know much of anything about him. Did he implement the preprocessor? the optimizer? the code generator? (For some context, back in the 80's, code generators needed enhancements to implement C++. You couldn't just use an existing one. Bjarne had to do some ugly workarounds because of this.) |
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| ▲ | tux3 6 days ago | parent [-] | | Sean Baxter's circle compiler uses LLVM as a backend, but I believe the rest is from scratch. Arguably these days having a clear frontend/backend separation is good compiler architecture. It might slow down compile times a bit, but it's worth the cost. | | |
| ▲ | vkazanov 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | So it sounds like he wrote the frontend of a cpp compiler? There's a lot of work in other layers as well. | |
| ▲ | WalterBright 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | It wouldn't have made much sense to write the preprocessor these days, too, but it is part of the C++ compiler. Unless integrating it with the C++ lexer for speed purposes, as I did. |
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