CF Bolz-Tereick on Nostr: The article about Clang's bytecode interpreter (for constexpr evaluation etc) is ...
The article about Clang's bytecode interpreter (for constexpr evaluation etc) is super interesting, but I'm still incredibly amused by C++ compiler authors having to care about interpreter performance
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/15/clang-bytecode-interpreter-updateAnyway, this just is another fun example interpreters and compilers being intermingled in silly ways. We put a (bytecode) compiler into your compiler so you can compile (and then interpret) while you compile
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