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| author | Quinn Stephens <quinn@osmora.org> | 2025-06-09 21:55:19 -0400 |
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| committer | Quinn Stephens <quinn@osmora.org> | 2025-06-09 21:55:19 -0400 |
| commit | c7c2e0dc65b0ea01d297de21983acbd1019df025 (patch) | |
| tree | ebe517b36d77744adb23be0b227b855fcf392f39 | |
| parent | c1abbf40752027d5c0f8f4853312a882ae3088d6 (diff) | |
Add documentation on compiler internals to README
Signed-off-by: Quinn Stephens <quinn@osmora.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 3 |
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@ -OSMORA C Compiler diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d6f488 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# OSMORA C Compiler +## Optimizations +The OSMORA C Compiler uses several optimizations to speed up the compilation process. Firstly, the lexer only scans one token at a time, because creating a list of tokens would waste memory and take more time, even though the parser will usually only need to access one token at any given time. Additionally, the lexer uses a hashmap to locate a keyword structure from its string form. Likewise, the parser also uses a hashmap to store all the symbols whose declarations it has parsed. |