Blog posts discussing the technical implementation detail "Code-Generation"
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← Back to all tagsIn the landscape of modern compiler design, a fundamental tension exists between preserving the elegance of high-level abstractions and generating efficient machine code. The Fidelity framework confronts this challenge head-on. By leveraging a powerful insight, referential transparency, the Firefly compiler provides a natural decision point for compilation strategies. At the heart our F# native compiler lies the Program Hypergraph (PHG), which analyzes code to identify any referentially transparent regions. This analysis drives a sophisticated compilation strategy that chooses between two powerful computational models: interaction nets for pure, parallel computations and delimited continuations for effectful, sequential operations.
Read MoreThe computing landscape has undergone seismic shifts over the past three decades, yet many of our foundational software platforms remain anchored to paradigms established during a vastly different technological era. Virtual machines and managed runtime environments like Java’s JVM and .NET’s CLR emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s as solutions to very specific problems of that time: platform independence, memory safety, and simplified development in an era of relatively homogeneous computing resources.
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