[webkit-dev] Some text about the B3 compiler

[Filip Pizło]

Thank you!  I'll convert them today. 

-Filip

> On Jan 29, 2016, at 10:02 AM, Timothy Hatcher <timothy at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> Markdown is pretty similar to the wiki formatting and very simple.
> 
> You can look at a cheatsheet if you login to the blog: https://webkit.org/wp/wp-admin/post.php?post=4300&action=edit
> 
> I have also used this HTML to Markdown converter before: http://domchristie.github.io/to-markdown/
> 
> The pages are created:
> 
> https://webkit.org/documentation/b3/ loads /docs/b3/bare-bones-backend.md
> https://webkit.org/documentation/b3/intermediate-representation/ loads /docs/b3/intermediate-representation.md
> 
> Once those files are added to SVN, they will get picked up by the site. I can change those to point to other names if you want something different.
> 
> — Timothy Hatcher
> 
>> On Jan 29, 2016, at 9:34 AM, saam barati <saambarati1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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