GOLF is a tiny CPU architecture designed to facilitate programming contests. It provides a simple to understand controlled environment where performance can be measured and tracked down to the individual cycle. It can provide an unambiguous winning criterium for either the speed in cycles or size in instructions of a solution.
The architecture was designed with simplicity as its main goal. It should be very easy to start coding in GOLF assembly by just reading the specification and the examples.
For now there is only an assembler and a virtual machine in Python 3. In the future a virtual machine in a faster language might be made. In a very distant future we might see a LLVM backend for GOLF, allowing many languages to be ran on GOLF.
assemble.py is the assembler, golf.py is the virtual machine. Both have a
built-in command line interface. Example usage:
$ python3 assemble.py examples/helloworld.golf
$ python3 golf.py examples/helloworld.bin
Hello, world!
$ echo foobar | python3 assemble.py -r examples/cat.golf
foobar
$ python3 assemble.py examples/fibonacci.golf
$ python3 golf.py -p f examples/fibonacci.bin f=25
75025
Execution terminated after 154 cycles with exit code 0.