Best Compiler Destination

Question

I\'ve got a few languages I\'ve been building as interpreters. When I\'m ready to take \"that next step\", what options are best for non-native compiled formats... what are

Answer 1

LLVM seems promising. The team claims better runtime performances on gcc with their backend compared to native. The ability to compile from the AST is really interesting (take a look at the tutorial). It can compile and optimize at runtime, which is a must for dynamic. It can also run as a pure interpreter.

I consider using LLVM in a project that involves creating a Tcl-like language. Tcl is heavily dynamic, so I don't know what this implies at this stage, but I'm confident that I'll get better performances than the current bytecode-based core.