CLox

C implementation of Lox from Crafting Interpreters.

Example usage: make && ./clox ./test/chap29_superclasses.lox

Resources

Pratt Parser

• Syntaxation • Douglas Crockford • GOTO 2013
• Simple but Powerful Pratt Parsing

FNV-1a Hashing:

• FNV Hash
• Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and speed?

Inspiration:

• The Implementation of Lua 5.0 (very similar to Lox)
• Other languages: Forth, Lisp \ Lisp with GC in 436 bytes io Language

Profiling on a Mac:

xctrace record --template 'Time Profiler' --launch ./clox ./test/chap30_benchmark_zoo.lox --output ./clox.trace

open ./clox.trace