llvm dev - Nov 2003 - [LLVMdev] Kudos

My hat is off to everyone that's worked on LLVM.

I started coding Stacker yesterday from scratch as a background task in
between doing "real" :) work. Tonight I got my first program generated
by the Stacker compiler to compile, link and execute. The entire control
flow of Stacker is done (mind you its trivial). All that remains is to
fill in code generation for about 60 built-in words.

I'm shocked. 8 Hours work? Is compiler writing supposed to be this easy?

Kudos. LLVM Rocks.

Reid
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I'm tempted to say Thanks, but in fact, the credit for this goes to 
Chris's design.  He's built a system that really makes it easy to do 
interesting projects in a short time, and to avoid common problems with 
the many safety nets in the core representation.  I think the extremely 
small IR plays a part too.

Some day, we should add a "User Testimonials" page and include a quote
or two like this, anonymously, or with attribution, and with permission 
of course!  Would you mind if we quoted you?

--Vikram
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~vadve
http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/

On Nov 20, 2003, at 4:02 AM, Reid Spencer wrote:
> My hat is off to everyone that's worked on LLVM.
>
> I started coding Stacker yesterday from scratch as a background task 
> in between doing "real" :) work. Tonight I got my first program 
> generated by the Stacker compiler to compile, link and execute. The 
> entire control flow of Stacker is done (mind you its trivial). All 
> that remains is to fill in code generation for about 60 built-in 
> words.
>
> I'm shocked. 8 Hours work? Is compiler writing supposed to be this 
> easy?
>
> Kudos. LLVM Rocks.
>
> Reid