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eru on April 14, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple's M1 Ultra comes with a 32MB TLB bottleneck

If you like compilers, I suggest you check out functional programming. Especially the languages in the ML family were basically tailor made to make writing compilers fun.

ML even stands for meta language.

See eg http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/ or https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_...

SwordOfMyBone on April 14, 2022 [–]

Nice! I cloned the repo so I can read through it. I already took some basic haskell so this looks like it's going to be fun to go through!

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