How to implement AST nodes

[AniketKumar2500]

There are two ways we can implement our ast nodes

1. Is to compile it down to machine code but the whole code should be written in C/C++
2. Using a JIT
   Which one should we go with.

[gekkowrld]

I think there are some backend compilers for python, we just need to write the IR for them

[AniketKumar2500]

Those IR or bytecodes are interpreted by Python Virtual Machine.

[AniketKumar2500]

@gekkowrld or can we make our own codegen which generates asm code for execution?

[gekkowrld]

That is a lot of work, support for different architecture and manual optimization is pretty time consuming. Even when writing for only x86_64 architecture it would also be significant. Have you looked at the existing backend compilers yet that can do the job?

[AniketKumar2500]

There is a jit compiler with numba and llvm

[gekkowrld]

I'll look at those and try to write a test version.

[gekkowrld]

@AniketKumar2500 I found llvmlite but I need that the tokenizer be a bit 'better' as I'm currently working on something else. After the tokenizer I'll write the backend part.

[AniketKumar2500]

@gekkowrld I am working on a different kind and finding ways for efficient codegen i found a way which many compiler already do that is that they convert their code into C so whats you're ideas about it?

[gekkowrld]

not bad