BearVM

A clean, expressive IR that compiles to QBE and LLVM, runs interpreted at speed, or fires through an experimental JIT on Apple Silicon.

Source: https://github.com/navid-m/bearvm

Contents:

• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Building from Source
  • Platform Support
  • Your First Program
  • A Slightly Larger Example
  • Next Steps
• Language Reference
  • File Extension
  • Types
  • Constants
  • Type Casts
  • Struct Definitions
  • Function Definitions
  • Registers
  • Explicit Basic Blocks (SSA form)
  • While Sugar
  • Struct Literals
  • Field Access
  • Named Constants
  • Entry Point
  • Comments
• Instruction Reference
  • Control Flow
  • Assignment
  • Arithmetic
  • Type Casts
  • Comparison
  • Memory
  • Arena Allocation
  • Concurrency
  • Loop Sugar
  • Error Conditions
• Memory Model
  • Manual Allocation
  • Arena Allocation
  • Choosing Between Manual and Arena Allocation
• Concurrency
  • Model
  • Spawning a Task
  • Synchronising
  • Full Example
  • Notes
• Builtin Functions
  • I/O
  • File I/O
  • File I/O Example
• Backends
  • Interpreter
  • QBE
  • LLVM
  • JIT
  • Installing QBE
  • Installing LLVM
• CLI Reference
  • Usage
  • Commands