This is a BF interpreter and optimizing compiler written in Go.
GoBF can simply run your BF program or compile it to a binary to run later.
go get github.com/linux4life798/gobf
The commandline program currently supports compile
, gengo
,
run
, and dumpil
actions.
Give it a try!
go get github.com/linux4life798/gobf
wget https://github.com/erikdubbelboer/brainfuck-jit/raw/master/mandelbrot.bf
gobf compile mandelbrot.bf
./mandelbrot
Note that the run
command will simply interpret the BF program in-place,
thus the performance will be as-is. Please use the compile
to generate
an optimized program.
Please see gobf --help
for more fun options!
The generated code optimizer reduces redundant and repetitive commands, like data pointer moves or incrementing a data cell. It coalesces multiple moves or data cell changes into one operation. Due to BF's repetitive nature, this typically increases the BF program's performance dramatically. All of the interesting optimization stuff is in gobflib/il package.
Recent work has added some pattern and vectorization based optimizations, but these have not been fully calibrated yet.
To try the zero pattern optimization, invoke gobf in the following manor:
gobf -O zero compile mandelbrot.bf