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Andy Keep - Writing a Nanopass Compiler
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Andy Keep's Clojure/Conj talk on writing a nanopass compiler, built from many single-task passes with formally defined intermediate languages. It covers the framework's origins in a compiler teaching course at Indiana University.
Cited alongside compiler-construction resources as the go-to talk on the nanopass approach used in Chez Scheme.
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