#Zyg

Zig Tricarbonate compiler.

#Status

Currently in alpha status. Unless you're interested in helping out, there's not much to see here right now.

The analysis pipeline rework was just completed (5/10/21). Currently working on integration with scas for assembly, and the zyg test driver, so that we can start getting upstream behavior tests passing.

#Goals

• Simple compiler
  • No LLVM
  • Incremental compilation via object file cache
• Fast
  • Optional multiprocessing, one process per input file
    • No shared address space, and no dependencies, so no data races
  • Fast to compile
    • Five seconds on Linux on the PineBook Pro
    • Two seconds on Plan 9 on the RPi 3 with two of the four cores disabled
• Full conformance
  • No features not present in the zig language will be supported
  • Some features may be left unimplemented if they aren't desired - but those features which are supported will conform 100%
• Possibly become the zig bootstrap compiler
• Optimizing
  • Simple optimizations such as CSE and inlining
    • callconv(.Inline) is already supported, deciding to inline unmarked functions is not yet
  • Prioritize lightning-fast compilation over marginal runtime improvements