brainfuck-jit

a brainfuck just-in-time compiler written in python with llvmlite

About

This simple program does the following:

• parse a brainfuck source file
• build an llvm ir representation of the program and prints it
• optimize said llvm ir and prints it
• runs it as machine code

Dependencies

• python
• llvmlite

Test

python bf.py mandelbrot.bf

Credits

very helpful resources:

• Building and using llvmlite - a basic example
• [llvm-brainfuck] (https://github.com/jeremyroman/llvm-brainfuck) (c++ implementation)
• pykaleidoscope (official tutorial rewritten with llvmlite)