Kevin Millikin
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The length is redundant if the list is delimited. Serializing the length had the slight advantage of preallocating a list of the correct size and the disadvantages of being harder to maintain by hand and ugly to read. Instead, delimit lists. The empty list is naturally (). Change-Id: I17c14f4e0ca4934cfd3dcdf2a0047f87df80bb79 Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/88320 Reviewed-by: Dmitry Stefantsov <dmitryas@google.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Hillerström <hillerstrom@google.com> Commit-Queue: Kevin Millikin <kmillikin@google.com>
Dart Kernel
Dart Kernel is a small high-level language derived from Dart. It is designed for use as an intermediate format for whole-program analysis and transformations, and to be consumed by codegen and execution backends.
The kernel language has an in-memory representation in Dart and can be serialized as binary or text.
Both the kernel language and its implementations are unstable and are under development.
This package contains the Dart part of the implementation and contains:
- A transformable IR for the kernel language
- Serialization of kernel code
Note: The APIs in this package are in an early state; developers should be careful about depending on this package. In particular, there is no semver contract for release versions of this package. Please depend directly on individual versions.
See ast.dart for the in-memory IR, or binary.md for a description of the binary format. For now, the textual format is very ad-hoc and cannot be parsed back in.