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Implementations are available in the repository linked to from the article. Not quite "ready for production", but hopefully a useful starting point. https://github.com/matslina/bfoptimization

Thanks, I see it. The translation code is inside ir.py. So you can call ir_to_c(bf_to_ir("+++.")) to do the conversion.

Here is the code to convert BF to C, in case anyone else is interested https://gist.github.com/primaryobjects/0ba06f1f6f0d3e984d89

Here it is running the converted C code https://ideone.com/z16KPJ

Very cool.

It is pretty trival to write a BF compiler to C, each instruction has a clear C equivilant and the parser is dead simple to write as well. It is less then an hours work to write a naive BF->C compiler

BF operators can be matched C code easily.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Commands