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Editorial note

Eh, this is still relevant, loop unrolling can still have a drastic effect if the compiler cannot optimize.

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One who compiles.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

One who compiles.

noun

(software) A computer program that transforms source code into object code.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for compiler.

noun

One who compiles.

noun

(software) A computer program that transforms source code into object code.

Example sentences

Eh, this is still relevant, loop unrolling can still have a drastic effect if the compiler cannot optimize.

And this from someone who read the entire ES5 specification and built a JIT compiler for JS.

If you want an imprecise (conservative) garbage collector, the GC and the compiler are almost disjoint.

How difficult would it be to add a garbage collector to a language that you have written a compiler for?

As if a guy who can write a compiler from scratch in JS is going to have trouble building UIs.

The role involves leading our language and compiler implementation efforts, building optimizing compilers to generate efficient code across HPC hardware.

You read that right: no complaint about an unknown program, but actually a compiler error.

Because a lot of C++ code predates the STL (or at least the STL being made available for whatever compiler they use).

Functional languages often lend them selves to elegant mathematic-looking functions and algorithms with many of the dirtier parts figured out by the compiler.

Backlash from working on a C compiler and wishing the task was easier?

In other words, it's a runtime-library issue, not a compiler issue.

Lua is tiny, has a tiny interpreter, has a fast compiler (LuaJIT) and has been resisting new language additions and doing fine anywhere it's deployed.

Quote examples

"sent 3 packets instead of 1 because the compiler translated each write of a bitfield member to a write of the whole register" So the problem was the fact that the language gives the impression of having more control than what the hardware is actually offering.

We're called the "support" department, but we don't field calls about "my cup holder is broken." We're much more likely to have someone turn compile 20K lines of C++ code with optimizations for the first time and have them tell us there's a bug in the compiler; but in reality their program has some undefined behavior that happens to behave differently with optimizations on -- and it's our job to find it!