Purpose:
It is for a beginner who somehow know about programming and compiler to know how the Swift compiler works. In other words, how the compiler compiles source files to an executable for a specific platform.
How to do:
The organization of this series of posts will be based on Top-Down approch, from big picture as a guide map to concrete details implemented into source code.
Therefore the menu of these posts would be as following:
1. Overview of the Swift Compiler.
2. Setup our playground
3. Driver
4. Lexer
5. Parser
6. Semantic Analysis
7. SIL Generation
8. SIL Guaranteed transformations
9. SIL Optimizations
10. LLVM IR Generation
11. IR Optimization
12. Backend
