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pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat
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front-end/back-end

vs.

top-end/bottom-end
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@<jn> ( -- ) DEO JMP2r @jn@boopsnoot.de
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@kitten top-end (display driver) vs. bottom-end (nvme flash translation layer)
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Maaike ๐Ÿ”œ eth0 @ayke@blahaj.social
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@kitten I still love the fact that compiler devs came up with "middle end" (between front end and back end). Because it's an "end" ... in the middle?
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Maaike ๐Ÿ”œ eth0 @ayke@blahaj.social
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@kitten for context: front-end does parsing and typechecking and such, middle end runs most optimizations, and backend emits machine code.

It's split like that so that you can have different frontends (different programming languages like C/Rust) and different backends (different CPU architectures like x86/ARM) all sharing the same optimizations in the middle.

No idea how common knowledge this is, I'm like the geologist in the "average familiarity" XKCD comic. So added to be sure.
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pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat
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@ayke โ€‹:blobCat_eyes:โ€‹
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anne_triangle ฮฑแผฐฮผ0, pet witch @eudaimonia@mastodon.vierkantor.com
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food referenced @ayke @kitten hehe they say everything has an end. except sausage has two. and compiler has three
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tomoyo @tomoyo@tech.lgbt
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@ayke @kitten oh right, I was on a "middle-end" team for a while, @recursive can confirm.

b2b soft-appliance though, not compiler!
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pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat
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lewd terminology or just top/bottom for short
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Mara Saphira, crush of many therian @littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network
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@kitten you're bottom end, hm? :>
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pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat
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@littlefox โ€‹:neocat_blush:โ€‹ that's what you'd want, huh?
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Mara Saphira, crush of many therian @littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network
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@kitten :>
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neocat_solder_googly @lnl@screaminginsi.de
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@kitten the top fell off
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