Welcome to EL!

EL is an educational language runtime and programming language! We’re using it to show people how to use Eclipse OMR to build their own language runtime with a Just in Time (JIT) Compiler!

Getting started

1. Requirements

To get started with EL you will need the following:

• git
• build-essential
• cmake (Minimum version 3.2.0)

2. Clone the repository and get the submodules

git clone --recursive https://github.com/bragaigor/EL.git

3. Build EL

cd EL \
&& mkdir build \
&& cd build \
&& cmake .. \
&& make

If make complains about python version use:

cmake -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=$(which python3) ..

4. Run a program

In the build folder:

4.1. Compile

bytecodecompiler/elc ../examples/test.el

4.2.1 Run with C Compiler

runtime/el -it 0 test.le

4.2.2 Run with JitBuilder Compiler

runtime/el -it 1 test.le

4.2.3 Run with InterpreterBuidler Compiler

runtime/el -it 2 test.le

To see real performance differences, do the above steps with programs that start with perf_