Experimental C backend with reference counting #739
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Written by Volkmar Frinken (@vfrinken). This is intended as a lightweight (i.e. minimal dependencies) code generator that can be ported to multiple platforms, especially those with memory constraints. It shouldn't be expected to be anywhere near as fast as the Scheme back end, for lots of reasons. The main goal is portability.
This builds a .o from the generated C, and statically links with the libidris2_support library. It doesn't yet dynamically link with any additional libraries.
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I pushed a PR for Windows to @edwinb branch. It will show up here automatically if he merges it. |
Make it build on windows
remove some redundancy, make tiny style changes
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Thanks to @vfrinken for putting this together - all I've done is merge it in and get it to invoke the C compiler.
There's still plenty to do here, particularly performance where there's a lot of low hanging fruit but the basics work. The main goal of this is portability - especially, being able to run Idris programs on unusual or constrained platforms. Generated code also has much better startup time than the scheme back ends!