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Taddeüs Kroes
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@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ purpose of practicing OCaml LLVM bindings and seeing how well LLVM optimizes
arrays. Brainfuck commands are transformed to LLVM IR, which is generated in
such a way that it is easy to optimize for LLVM's
`opt`
utility.
Building and usage
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@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ Building the `bf` compiler (Debian dependencies):
$ sudo apt-get install ocaml llvm-3.4 libllvm-3.4-ocaml-dev
$ make
Building a
b
rainfuck program (plain and optimized):
Building a
B
rainfuck program (plain and optimized):
$ make hello hello-opt # compile file "hello.b" to binaries
$ ./hello
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@@ -35,3 +36,58 @@ Examining generated LLVM:
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$ echo ++++++++++++. | ./bf | opt -O3 -S
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Optimization example
--------------------
The
`text.py`
utility genrates single-cell Brainfuck code for a given text:
$ ./text.py Hello World!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.
+++++++.
.
+++.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.
++++++++++++++++++++++++.
+++.
------.
--------.
-------------------------------------------------------------------.
-----------------------.
The LLVM optimization engine is able to completely optimize away array accesses
(in the absence of loops):
$ ./text.py Hello World! | ./bf | opt -O3 -S
; ModuleID = '<stdin>'
target datalayout = "e"
; Function Attrs: nounwind
declare i32 @putchar(i8) #0
declare void @exit(i32)
define void @_start() {
entry:
%0 = tail call i32 @putchar(i8 72)
%1 = tail call i32 @putchar(i8 101)
%2 = tail call i32 @putchar(i8 108)
%3 = tail call i32 @putchar(i8 108)
%4 = tail call i32 @putchar(i8 111)
%5 = tail call i32 @putchar(i8 32)
%6 = tail call i32 @putchar(i8 87)
%7 = tail call i32 @putchar(i8 111)
%8 = tail call i32 @putchar(i8 114)
%9 = tail call i32 @putchar(i8 108)
%10 = tail call i32 @putchar(i8 100)
%11 = tail call i32 @putchar(i8 33)
%12 = tail call i32 @putchar(i8 10)
tail call void @exit(i32 0)
ret void
}
attributes #0 = { nounwind }
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