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This makes it so that we no longer use a LUT (Look-Up Table): * The code is much simpler and easier to understand now. * Using a LUT means we rely on a warm cache. Relying on the cache like this results in inconsistent performance and in many cases codegen will be worse. Also as @topolarity once pointed out, in some cases while it seems like the code may branch, it actually doesn't: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/11629#issuecomment-1213641429 * Other languages' standard libraries don't do this either. JFF I wanted to see what other languages codegen compared to us now: https://rust.godbolt.org/z/Te4ax9Edf, https://zig.godbolt.org/z/nTbYedWKv So we are pretty much on par or better than other languages now.
A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Resources
- Introduction
- Download & Documentation
- Chapter 0 - Getting Started | ZigLearn.org
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- download a pre-built binary
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- bootstrap zig for any target
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The ultimate goal of the Zig project is to serve users. As a first-order effect, this means users of the compiler, helping programmers to write better software. Even more important, however, are the end-users.
Zig is intended to be used to help end-users accomplish their goals. Zig should be used to empower end-users, never to exploit them financially, or to limit their freedom to interact with hardware or software in any way.
However, such problems are best solved with social norms, not with software licenses. Any attempt to complicate the software license of Zig would risk compromising the value Zig provides.
Therefore, Zig is available under the MIT (Expat) License, and comes with a humble request: use it to make software better serve the needs of end-users.
This project redistributes code from other projects, some of which have other licenses besides MIT. Such licenses are generally similar to the MIT license for practical purposes. See the subdirectories and files inside lib/ for more details.