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Compilers are implementations of programming languages which convert source code into another format, such as a binary executable, bytecode, or another programming language. Use this tag for questions about the design or implementation of compilers. This contrasts with interpreters, which execute source code directly.

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Can you, should you, go straight from AST to SSA?

Is that more common in modern compilers? …
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Data structures for scopes and variable shadowing

Maybe that's fine, but I'm wondering if there are some standard data structures used in compilers that are better than this linked list stack approach. …
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