Oliver Medhurst

8 May

enjoy 2 new blog posts! - Porffor now has closures: surprisingly annoying for a compiler. goose.icu/porffor-clos... - Profile-guided dead code elimination: a novel approach for DCE in dynamic languages. goose.icu/profile-guid...

the latest version of Porffor features ESM support! it not only removes needing a bundler beforehand but also makes compilation much faster as we can split C across modules

this also introduces incremental compilation which can speedup builds by up to 30x versus last release!

18 Sept

for fun: TSC compiled to native with Porffor! 25MB, starts in <5ms

18 Sept

to be transparent: this *is* real TSC fully ahead-of-time! it isn't good (buggy, not as fast, requires minor changes) but I hope gets you excited for the future :)

honk.fooPorffor goes alpha August 11thA self-hosting and rewritten Porffor launches in SF next month!

25 Aug

Porffor alpha is out! It represents a new phase of the project where real-world dependencies are beginning to work and Node compatibility is the main bottleneck. To be clear, it still likely won't work with your app yet, but it is much closer than before. Recap here: honk.foo/porffor-alpha/

youtube.come18e & friends E004 - Oliver MedhurstWhat if you could compile JavaScript to Native but ahead of time? W...

25 Aug

forgot to post about this before 😅 busy times :)

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Alexander Lichter

@thealexlichter.com

5 Aug

And we are live now with @honk.foo youtube.com/live/L8Edgas...

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Willow (GHOST)

@willow.sh

31 July

Alright, I didn't so much learn @gleam.run as I did play around with Porffor (JS to native code compiler by @honk.foo) 🧵

Willow (GHOST)@willow.sh

Oki it's finally time

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Alexander Lichter

@thealexlichter.com

28 July

Summer break is over: The @e18e.dev & friends show is coming back next week 🎉 And we got nobody else than the one and only @honk.foo talking about Porforr and how a future for natively compiled JavaScript could look like! Swing by at 7pm CEST / 1pm EDT on August 4th 👌 youtube.com/live/L8Edgas...

youtube.come18e & friends E004 - Oliver MedhurstWhat if you could compile JavaScript to Native but ahead of time? W...

honk.fooPorffor goes alpha August 11thA self-hosting and rewritten Porffor launches in SF next month!

27 July

Porffor officially goes alpha on August 11th with an in-person in San Francisco! It brings self-hosting and a complete rewrite, plus more: honk.foo/porffor-alpha/

tangled.orghonk.foo/porffor[READ-ONLY] Mirror of https://github.com/CanadaHonk/porffor. An ahead-of-time JavaScript compiler

19 July

enjoy tangled.org/honk.foo/por...

Oliver Medhurst@honk.foo

what's the best way to mirror a gh repo to tangled? 👀

19 July

what's the best way to mirror a gh repo to tangled? 👀

14 July

now state of the art btw because why not :)

Oliver Medhurst@honk.foo

also a fun side project I've been hacking on and off for about half a year: autolrc.honk.foo totally didn't just make a landing site to test porffor rewrite in "prod". nope, nuh uh, no way

8 July

also a fun side project I've been hacking on and off for about half a year: autolrc.honk.foo totally didn't just make a landing site to test porffor rewrite in "prod". nope, nuh uh, no way

8 July

uses ~1mb memory btw ;)

8 July

Porffor is now self-hosted, meaning it compiles itself with itself! This is made possible by Porffor's new rewrite, reducing its lines of code by >50% and making C output up to 5x more efficient! Here you can see the stats before and after the rewrite for Porffor itself:

javascript is cool

size unmaxxing

I will be in SF ~mid August, DM if you want to hangout and/or talk about how Porffor could help your company in the future :)

29 June

new domain 👀 goose.icu -> honk.foo

27 June

doubling my domain count in one day 😭

generators

oops (#vagueposting)

took an interesting route for data structures for rewrite and looks like it is good. hybrid C struct and nanboxing because just nanboxing is far too slow :(

but nan boxing wins for in-memory stuff! hence hybrid ;)

16 June

took an interesting route for data structures for rewrite and looks like it is good. hybrid C struct and nanboxing because just nanboxing is far too slow :(

16 June

will include in the rewrite blog post ;)

guild.hostnpmx london #2 | GuildJun 19th 6:00PM: Come join us at our first proper npmx meetup in London! A huge thanks to AG Grid who are hosting us and providing food Schedule: 18:00 - 19:00 -> Socialising & Food 19:00 - 19:15 -...

16 June

London friends! I will be around later this week if you want to hangout :) secret demos if I finish my rewrite in time?

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npmx

@npmx.dev

12 June

We'll be in London next week! Come hang out with us 🤍

12 June

doing huge architecture changes and scope reduction is both so depressing and so exciting

13 June

rewriting almost the entire compiler

12 June

want to change my versioning scheme but screwed myself as npm can't rewind versions. my options are: 1. bypassing this restriction somehow 2. going to 0.1xx.0 3. going to 1.0.0-alpha.x any opinions/ideas?

update: writing a borrow checker 🥴

any js (library/runtime) folks want to help/give feedback on an api design? :)

new gc is both so exciting and crash out worthy for debugging gc bugs 😤

Map and Set are now up to over 300x faster :)

now uses O(1) hash table instead of O(N) linear scanning

10 June

do you want to see exciting demos even if impractical/will likely never come to fruition? yay or nay

10 June

(very!) early preview for a new experimental threading Porffor api. it enables intentionally low level concurrency to (try to) enable the most efficient communication feasible. here are 1 million threads alive simultaneously using only ~16gb. 16kb/thread, <1us start avg.

10 June

cleanup grind continues

Oliver Medhurst@honk.foo

cleaning up code directly correlates to smaller (unoptimized!) selfhosted binary size 😇 (the ~release binary size is much much smaller)