Concepts

This chapter aims to give you a brief overview of the internal workings. Even though lovm2 is designed to be as simple as possible, it is still quite important to grasp the implementation concepts behind it.

The general steps of coming to a runnable program are roughly:

• Create a new ModuleBuilder and populate it with functions aka. Hir data
• Call module_builder.build() consuming the builder and returning a runnable Module
• Load the module into an instance of a virtual machine Vm using load_and_import_all
• Start the program by calling run on the virtual machine