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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 05/09/2026

Optimizing the Radiance compiler with GPT-6. An 8.46% improvement in instructions executed for less than 60 net lines added.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 13/04/2026

This is called “economy”

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 13/04/2026

Radiant’s software stack will have the highest utility and performance per line of code of any personal computer system.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 09/04/2026

The kernel being so small means that a lot ends up in user space: networking, file system, IPC, audio, graphics, etc.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 09/04/2026

This in turn means that virtual memory and paging are not necessary. For protection from untrusted binaries, it’s possible to use PMP (Physical Memory Protection) still, but this won’t be the default.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 09/04/2026

Yes, it’s possible to reduce traps as well as scheduler time to a bare minimum with clever kernel ABI design. All this research exists and sadly has not been put to use. You’re welcome!

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 09/04/2026

The kernel loader only accepts typed binaries (Radiance IL) that it can statically verify. Pointer fabrication or laundering can therefore be rejected at load time. The trade-off is that raw RV64 binaries are not accepted by the kernel.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 08/04/2026

Work has started on the Radiant Kernel. * It’s an exokernel. Very minimal. * It uses ring buffers as the only syscall interface (think io_uring). * There is no virtual memory — protection works via static analysis. * There are no device drivers, software has direct hardware access.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 04/04/2026

Also note that most of these compilers are optimized for incremental compilation. Radiance is optimized for whole program compilation. The only other language we know of that by design does not do incremental compilation is Jai.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 04/04/2026

Some of these compilers have a substantial fixed overhead, so a larger source code was used to make things more fair. The LOC/s is what counts.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 04/04/2026

All benchmarks are run on a single thread. Radiance compiles its own source code, while the other compilers are compiling synthetic code. When allowed to use multiple cores, Go was the fastest. Radiance isn't optimized for parallelism currently.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 04/04/2026

Radiance compiles itself in 0.2s from scratch on the experimental amd64 backend. It's fast 💨

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 02/03/2026

To learn more about the Radiance compiler, see the last few posts on our log: radiant.computer/log/ If you're interested in personal computing or language design, please reach out, we'd love to talk.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 02/03/2026

The release includes `forge`, a simple read-only Git forge that supports SHA-256 repositories, and HTTPS cloning. Forge was entirely vibe-coded. Let us know if you encounter any issues with it.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 02/03/2026

Radiance is not meant to be used outside of the Radiant system, at least for now. It requires a RISC-V emulator to run, and does not emit ELF-compatible binaries. It was designed to be small like C, but ergonomic like Rust. We're getting there. The compiler and emulator are MIT licensed.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 02/03/2026

The Radiance language is still in an early stage, but the compiler is already self-hosting. The compiler sits at around 18 KLOC. It has zero dependencies, meaning that it links and emits machine code directly. It also includes an intermediate language.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 02/03/2026

Radiant is open-sourcing its compiler toolchain and launching code.radiant.computer today.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 28/02/2026

🪵 Radiant Log #012 -- A fixed point has been reached. radiant.computer/log/012-radi...

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 23/02/2026

The Radiance compiler has reached a fixed point. This means it can now compile itself and generate identical output to itself.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 18/02/2026

Nostalgia for a pre-AI world..

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 16/02/2026

🪵 A new log entry was posted: "A.I. and the Future of Computing" radiant.computer/notes/ai-and...

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A.I. and the Future of Computing

A new kind of personal computer

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 12/02/2026

Preparing to put sources online 🌐

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 27/01/2026

Incompatibility allows true progress.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 25/01/2026

🪵 A new log entry was posted: "Radiance Intermediate Language" radiant.computer/log/011-radi...

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Radiant Log #011

A new kind of personal computer

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 02/01/2026

📝 A new note was added: "Maybe Not" radiant.computer/notes/maybe-...

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cloudhead @cloudhead.io · 17/12/2025

Radiance IR (RIR) tentative syntax. Below is example code for a simple loop that sums numbers.

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 27/11/2025

🪵 A new log entry was posted: "A Semantic Analyzer in R'" radiant.computer/log/010-a-se...

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Radiant Log #010

A new kind of personal computer

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 20/11/2025

🪵 A new log entry was posted: "R' language design progress" radiant.computer/log/009-r-la...

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Radiant Log #009

A new kind of personal computer

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cloudhead @cloudhead.io · 12/11/2025

Working on the module system implementation in R', getting the module graph setup. package = compilation unit (equivalent to rust "crate") module = namespace within package

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Radiant Computer @radiant.computer · 11/11/2025

📝 A note was added: "Why not Rust?" radiant.computer/notes/why-no...

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cloudhead @cloudhead.io · 04/11/2025

I'm working on a new kind of computer. It's called the Radiant. I've been dissatisfied with the state of personal computing for many years now, so it's time I did something about it. If you think computers could be so much better than what they are, this is for you. radiant.computer

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Radiant Computer

A new kind of personal computer

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