A compiler toolkit
Experimental.
Provide the missing bricks upon which to bring efficient parallel compilers.
There are many parsing libraries, there are typing algorithms, but very few libraries address the lower-level bricks needed to build up a compiler:
- How do you intern strings?
- How do you store an AST, HIR, MIR, CFG?
- How do you schedule the compilation of items with complex inter-dependencies?
- How do you incrementally compile, only recalculating the minimum needed compared to the last run?
The goal of endor is to offer an answer to these oft-neglected questions.
Endor aims to be neutral towards the exact datamodel and algorithms used.
This author is only really aware of the salsa framework in the same space.
This author got a chuckle from the gimli crate, a crate used to parse DWARF information, and decided that Middle Earth would thus be an appropriate foundation to build upon.