On: Mir: A lightweight JIT compiler project

[giancarlostoro]

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(disambiguation)#Science_a...

I feel like this list is missing some more, but yeah, there's been a few 'Mir' projects.

[jordigh → giancarlostoro]

I was thinking of this Mir:

http://docs.mir.dlang.io/latest/index.html

[giancarlostoro → jordigh]

I was thinking of Rust's MIR being missing too:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/04/19/MIR.html

[wyldfire → giancarlostoro]

> That is, we are introducing a new intermediate representation (IR) of your program that we call MIR: MIR stands for mid-level IR, because the MIR comes between the existing HIR ("high-level IR", roughly an abstract syntax tree) and LLVM (the "low-level" IR).

It's so terribly confusing because LLVM itself defines a .mir (Machine IR) that is a syntax between its IR and the backend (which could be thought of as mid-level IR). When I heard about Rust's MIR, I assumed it was some clever way to generate target-dependent IR.

The good news is that we now have M(L)IR: the one IR to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

[anp → wyldfire]

If anything I expect MLIR to make things more confusing as Rust’s MIR is probably going to be around for the long haul.

[_lbaq → jordigh]

I was thinking of the Soviet Spacestation Mir, probably will tell you my age...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir

[crystaldev → _lbaq]

Everyone thinks of the Mir space station first, no?

[catalogia → crystaldev]

Probably most people past their mid 20s, I don't know that many schools teach about it.

[crystaldev → catalogia]

That sounds right, anybody with memory of 2001 when its deorbit was in the news.

[crystaldev → jordigh]

I was thinking of this Mir:

https://mir-server.io/