Life & fun · November 27, 2017
Computation at Compile-Time now free online
Computation at Compile-Time now free online launched on November 27, 2017 with 57 votes, #808 of 3,137 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
In plain words
Computation at Compile-Time is a free online book exploring compiler design from an unconventional angle. It examines how compilers can be viewed not just as translation tools but as interpreters capable of general-purpose computation, focusing on source code that gets discarded during compilation. The book targets readers with little formal interest in compiler theory who want to understand computation happening at compile time rather than runtime.
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From the sources
JavaScript must be enabled in your browser to display the table of contents. This is a book about compiler design for people who have no interest in studying compiler design. …Umm, then who wants to read this book? Let me try this again… This book is the study of source code which is discarded by the compiler, having no representation in the generated machine code. …Ummm, still not right… This book is about viewing a compiler not only as a means of translating source code into machine code, but also viewing it as an interpreter capable of any general purpose computation. …Closer, but who cares?… I think I got it now. This is a book about "Testing at…from billsix.github.io
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