What is Lithium?
Lithium is an attempt at several things at once:
- An assembler for x86 CPUs, written in Clojure and using Clojure S-expressions as its input data. This part has been first announced in this blog post.
- A compiler for a toy Lisp-like language, using that assembler as a backend. The compiler is being written following the guidelines found in a paper "An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction."
The purposes of Lithium are, first and foremost, to learn and to have fun.
Try it out
In the REPL:
(require '[lithium.compiler :as compiler])
(compiler/compile-and-run! "examples/stripes-grey.clj")License
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The assembly code in register-dump is a s-expression version of a snippet
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