The post is from 2022.<p>However, looking at the table of contents [0], she seems to spend a lot of the book on types and pointers. That's cool, since the compiler books that I've seen don't cover languages with pointers and pointer arithmetic (and the analyses that come with that), or representations of types.<p>[0]: <a href="https://nostarch.com/writing-c-compiler" rel="nofollow">https://nostarch.com/writing-c-compiler</a>
Advertising it as Writing a C Compiler is misleading. This is no where near C's speed. It's just an implementation of a C like language. And honestly there are better books or tutorials for something like that.<p>C's selling point is performance and portability and this book covers neither