Using and porting GNU lightning

GNU lightning is a library that generates assembly language code at run-time; it is very fast, making it ideal for Just-In-Time compilers, and it abstracts over the target CPU, as it exposes to the clients a standardized RISC instruction set inspired by the MIPS and SPARC chips.

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GNU lightning is usable in complex code generation tasks. The available backends cover the aarch64, alpha, arm, hppa, ia64, loongarch, mips, powerpc, risc-v, s390, sparc and x86 architectures.

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GNU lightning Resources

Releases are available from ftp.gnu.org. Documentation is available on-line.

Development code can be checked out from git.savannah.gnu.org.