Topics

• Method Dispatch
  • Publications
  • Generic Function Representation
  • Runtime Dispatch
    • Discriminators at Runtime
    • Discriminator Structure
  • Compile Time Optimization
  • Analysis
    • Performance Highlighting
    • Dispatch Profiler
  • Future Work
• Debugging
  • Debugging a Compiler Crash or Internal Error
  • Dumping DFM Output
• Porting to a New Target Platform
  • Naming Your Target
  • New Registry
  • System Library
    • New LID and definitions
    • Magic Numbers
  • C Back-End
  • LLVM Back-End
  • Build Scripts
  • Autoconf
  • Performing a Cross-Build
    • Preparing the Garbage Collector
    • Building the Run-Time
    • Creating a Custom Build Script
    • Cross-Building a Test Application
    • Cross-Building the Dylan Compiler
    • Building without a Cross-Compiler
• The PPML library
  • Constructing a PPML Document
  • Printing a PPML Document
  • The PPML module
    • PPML Tokens and Constructors
    • Conversion to PPML
    • Printing / Formatting
    • Type Aliases and Constants
• Release Check-list