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Hand-written interpreter beats the compiler▼Beating the compiler (2024)Yhn Technology Mobile581 h ago
Matt Keeter's 2024 blog post revisits his project comparing a hand-written bytecode interpreter against compiler-generated code, showing that careful low-level engineering can outperform what optimizing compilers like LLVM produce. Readers on Hacker News are debating the result, discussing how much control programmers should take from compilers and when hand-tuned code is worth the effort.
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Zig 0.17 arrives with reworked build system and LLVM 22▼Zig 0.17 advances the systems programming language with ELF linker work, build system changes, LLVM 22, glibc 2.44, andMmastodon Technology Software72 d ago
The Zig project has released version 0.17 of its systems programming language. The update brings significant ELF linker work, a reworked build system, support for LLVM 22, and glibc 2.44 compatibility, among other changes. Developers are discussing the release as another step in the language's steady progress toward a 1.0 milestone.