Brainfuck compiler in Go - well not quite. A compiler outputs binaries. It's in between an interpreter and a compiler.
This is not the smallest possible implementation of a Brainfuck interpreter by any means. Nor it is the fastest. Those aren't the goals.
The goal from this was to learn a bit about how interpreters and compilers work. Using Brainfuck looked to be the simplest way to achieve this.
Steps of this process are kept in separate packages and serve as a decent blueprint for future, more complicated work.
Resources:
- lexer on *.b file
- parses tokens from lexer
- create list(AST in this context) of instructions from (2)
- optimize instructions
- evalute instructions
- output result
Steps 1-3 run concurrently.
Get it.
$ go get github.com/domluna/brainfuck-go
Use it.
$ brainfuck-go helloworld.b
// Hello World!
Running examples/mandelbrot.b
timings.
without optimization -> 194.10 seconds
with optimization -> 52.62 seconds
That's ~400% speed up. So it's fair to say the optimizations do a fair amount.