Tag | compiler

  1. Thoughts on the Developement of PyPy RISC-V JIT Backend

    After eight years of development, my patch implementing a RISC-V JIT backend for PyPy was merged upstream in 2024. This work is now included in the PyPy v7.3.17 release in this August. To share my journey and my insights, I decided to write this article.

    A brief introduction …

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  2. Count Trailing Zeros

    How to count the number of trailing zeros of an integer? The simplest way is to use the built-in function __builtin_ctz():

    uint64_t count(uint64_t n) {
  return __builtin_ctz(n);
}

    What will happen if we don't have __builtin_ctz()? If we have another built-in function __popcount(), which can compute the Hamming weight (the …

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  3. RISC-V Microprocessor

    RISC-V is an instruction set architecture (ISA) released by UC Berkeley. Besides, a high performance, power efficient, and royalty-free open source implementation Rocket Chip is available.

    RISC-V was developed by Krste Asanović and David A. Patterson. In their technical report, they claimed that an open instruction set can benefit both …

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