Show HN: Lambda-8cc – An x86 C compiler written in untyped lambda calculus
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#2This is the most spectacular waste of time I have ever seen. I absolutely love it!
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#3Hot dog. I dreamed of writing something like this, and this guy actually goes and does it. Mad props.
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#4It's Friday, I'm in love...
Just the kind of ridiculous brilliance I needed at the end of a hard week. Bravo!
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#5This is the most spectacular waste of time I have ever seen. I absolutely love it!
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#6primes.c takes 241GB to compile
Nice
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#7This is the most spectacular waste of time I have ever seen. I absolutely love it!
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#8This is the most spectacular waste of time I have ever seen. I absolutely love it!
Not to mention printing resources. I already had to pause to refill the black toner cartridge twice and reloaded the paper tray countless times, and the end is nowhere near.
I was deceived by a glimmer of false hope: a page full of ). Alas, I then glanced at the page number---far short of the 18000+ goal.
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#10How does it work? Is it translating the C source code of the 8cc C compiler to lambda calculus?
So like C -> ELVM IR -> lambda calculus?
If so, it seems like 8cc is doing most of the heavy lifting