[webkit-dev] Some text about the B3 compiler

[saam barati]

I'm happy to convert the document to markdown. Can you send me your latest revision or post it to the website?

I usually look at:
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
For a refresher on the syntax.

Tim, could you create a page that loads the markdown file?

Thanks,
Saam

> On Jan 29, 2016, at 12:06 AM, Filip Pizło <fpizlo at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm all for this but I don't know anything about markdown. 
> 
> What's the best way to proceed?
> 
> -Filip
> 
>> On Jan 28, 2016, at 9:24 PM, Timothy Hatcher <timothy at apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>> They should be markdown files like we do for the code style and policy documents.
>> 
>> https://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Websites/webkit.org/code-style.md
>> 
>> We can then make Wordpress pages on the site that load the markdown.
>> 
>> Maybe put them in a /docs/b3/ directory?
>> 
>> — Timothy Hatcher
>> 
>>> On Jan 28, 2016, at 4:48 PM, Filip Pizlo <fpizlo at apple.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I guess we could put it in Websites/webkit.org/b3.  Then patches could edit both B3 and the documentation in one go, and the documentation would go live when it’s committed.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone object to this?
>>> 
>>> -Filip
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 28, 2016, at 4:39 PM, Saam barati <sbarati at apple.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Yeah. That’d be the easiest way to keep it up IMO.
>>>> 
>>>> Saam
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 28, 2016, at 4:37 PM, Filip Pizło <fpizlo at apple.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> +1
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do you think we should move the documentation to a file in svn so that it can be reviewed as part of patch review?
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Filip
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jan 28, 2016, at 4:32 PM, Saam barati <sbarati at apple.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This is great. Thanks Fil.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I propose that we do all that we can to keep this updated.
>>>>>> I suggest that all patches that change to the IR should also include with it 
>>>>>> a change to the documentation, and that reviewers should require this.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It’d also be great if other significant changes that seem like the deserve
>>>>>> a mention in the documentation also get added as part of patches.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Saam
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jan 28, 2016, at 4:23 PM, Filip Pizlo <fpizlo at apple.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> We’ve been working on a new compiler backend for the FTL JIT, which we call B3.  It stands for “Bare Bones Backend”.  We recently enabled it on X86/Mac, and we’re working hard to enable it on other platforms.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> If you’re interested in how it works, I’ve started writing documentation.  I’ll be adding more to it soon!
>>>>>>> https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BareBonesBackend
>>>>>>> https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/B3IntermediateRepresentation
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -Filip
>>>>>>> 
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