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Cranelift, Part 4: A New Register Allocator

by cfallin on 6/9/22, 8:59 PM with 16 comments

• by xiaodai on 6/10/22, 2:31 AM

  Is Cranelift basically a LLVM but in Rust?

• by sitkack on 6/10/22, 12:56 AM

  Such a wonderful series of articles! Beautiful work.

• by userbinator on 6/10/22, 4:23 AM

  Register allocation is a classically hard (NP-hard!) problem

  I thought one of the huge advantages of using SSA is linear-time register allocation?

• by wrs on 6/9/22, 11:04 PM

  Next time someone says "well-written code doesn't need comments" I think I will just refer them to this page.