Updated Self Hosted Compiler Upgrade Guide (markdown)

Andrew Kelley 2022-08-19 22:14:53 -04:00
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### Improvements Over Stage1
* Many bugs are fixed, which could never be fixed in stage1 due to fundamental design flaws.
* Performance is noticeably improved. For Zig itself, we observe 1.5x speed in building itself.
* Memory usage is improved by a factor of about 3x. For Zig itself, building self-hosted went from using 9.1 GiB to 2.7 GiB.
* Performance is noticeably improved. For Zig, we observe 1.5x speed in building itself.
* Memory usage is improved by a factor of about 3x. For Zig, building itself went from using 9.1 GiB to 2.7 GiB.
* The LLVM code generated is better. LLVM has an easier time optimizing. You likely will have small improvements in perf of your project.
* Many compile errors are more helpful.
* The core design is fundamentally different so that