I have a lot of thoughts about the design of compiler intermediate representations (IRs). In this post I’m going to try and communicate some of those ideas and why I think they are important.

This post is all about speculative compilation, or just speculation for short, in the context of the JavaScriptCore virtual machine.

A somewhat compact implementation of the awk programming language

A fun, hands-on guide to writing your own compiler for a real-world programming language.

Last year I finally decided to learn some Rust. The official book by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols is excellent, but even after reading it and working on some small code exercises, I felt that I …