• called the chicken-or-egg problem in compiler design, and bootstrapping is a solution to this problem. Bootstrapping is a fairly common practice when creating...
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  • technology, the term bootstrapping refers to language compilers that are able to be coded in the same language. (For example, a C compiler is now written in...
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  • have self-hosted implementations: compilers that are both in and for the same language. An approach is bootstrapping, where a core version of the language...
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  • Look up bootstrapping or bootstrap in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bootstrapping is a self-starting process that is supposed to proceed without external...
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  • metalanguage, compiling itself is equivalent to self-hosting compiler. Most common compilers written today are self-hosting compilers. Self-hosting is...
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  • implementation of itself. Bootstrapping: If using a compiler, a developer may use the process of bootstrapping, where a compiler for a programming language...
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    Tombstone diagram (category Compilers)
    bootstrapping, porting, and self-compiling of compilers, interpreters, and macro-processors. T-diagrams were first used for describing bootstrapping and...
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    what side of the argument – chicken or egg – the killer took. Bootstrapping (compilers), the solution to an analogous problem in computer science Catch-22...
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  • with limited computing resources. Cross compilers are distinct from source-to-source compilers. A cross compiler is for cross-platform software generation...
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    The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a collection of compilers from the GNU Project that support various programming languages, hardware architectures...
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    C (programming language) (category Compiled programming languages)
    Also, contemporary major compilers GCC and LLVM both feature an intermediate representation that is not C, and those compilers support front ends for many...
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    parallelism. Free software portal Computer programming portal Bootstrapping (compilers) Cython GraalVM Partial evaluation Psyco Self-hosting Self-interpreter...
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    Zig (programming language) (category C (programming language) compilers)
    from the various combinations produced by the script. The previous bootstrapping compiler, written in Zig and C++ using LLVM as a back-end, supporting many...
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  • Jikes RVM (section Compilers)
    Jikes List of Java virtual machines Free Java implementations Bootstrapping (compilers) Self-hosting Self-interpreter PyPy (Python implementation in Python)...
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  • After the TMG version of B was working, Thompson rewrote B in itself(a bootstrapping step).…When Johnson returned to Bell Labs in 1973, he was disconcerted...
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    Raku (programming language) (category Free and open source compilers)
    implementation, nor are there concrete plans at this point to make Rakudo a bootstrapping compiler. Pugs was an initial implementation of Perl 6 written in Haskell...
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    product. In one of the first real compilers, they often succeeded. Later compilers, like IBM's Fortran IV compiler, placed more priority on good diagnostics...
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    implementations, and Matlab now including JIT compilers.[citation needed] Making the distinction between compilers and interpreters yet again even more vague...
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  • gates on encrypted data that greatly simplifies bootstrapping and implemented a variant of the bootstrapping procedure. The efficiency of FHEW was further...
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  • companies often experience from their owners. One consensus definition of bootstrapping sees it as "a collection of methods used to minimize the amount of outside...
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  • Standard ML of New Jersey (category Free and open source compilers)
    -Cparser.succ-ml=true. Since at least 1998, MLton is the standard bootstrapping compiler, and includes some support for Successor ML. In 2008, work began...
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  • different stage-1 compilers, which however should have the same behavior. Thus the same source compiled with both stage-1 compilers must then result in...
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  • C) for which compilers for many platforms are generally available. Instead of translating directly into machine code, modern compilers translate to a...
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  • Bootstrappable builds (category Compiling tools)
    use multiple stages in the bootstrapping procedure to be able to build a C compiler, and from that build the other compilers or software. Software can...
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  • compilers. Several famous languages have self-compiling compilers, including Burroughs B5000 Algol, PL/I, C, LISP, and Java. Creating such compilers is...
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  • the SP/k compilers produced the same results under other contemporary PL/I compilers such as IBM's PL/I F compiler, IBM's checkout compiler or Cornell...
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  • Clean (programming language) (category Free and open source compilers)
    on Windows. Earlier versions of the Clean compiler were written completely in C, thus avoiding bootstrapping issues. The ABC code mentioned above is an...
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    the D compiler itself in 100% D". The backend and almost the entire compiler was ported from C++ to D for full bootstrapping. GCC – The GNU Compiler Collection...
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    Julia (programming language) (category Free and open source compilers)
    the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2023. "compiler: speed up bootstrapping time by 25% by aviatesk · Pull Request #41794 · JuliaLang/julia"...
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  • small and simple compilers could be written for it; reputedly some compilers could be run in 16 kilobytes. Furthermore, the original compiler, itself written...
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