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I went over the first of the "deep dive" talks between EPFL and Waterloo, and wrote down some comments on the material.
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| Trees represent code written by the user (e.g. methods, classes, expressions). There are two kinds of trees: untyped and typed. | ||
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| Unlike other compilers (but like `scalac`), dotty doesn't use intermediate representations (IRs) during the compilation pipeline. Instead, it uses trees for all phases. |
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Dotty does use an IR (Tree), what it doesn’t do is use multiple IRs and transform trees (to a large extent, trees are sometimes in fact transformed).
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Updated this section to say that Dotty uses a single IR. PTAL.
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I went over the first of the "deep dive" talks between EPFL and
Waterloo, and wrote down some comments on the material.