http://programmer.ie/tags/compilation/ Recent content in Compilation on Programmer.ie Hugo en-us Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:45:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/dspy-from-first-principles/10-chapter/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:45:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/dspy-from-first-principles/10-chapter/ <h1 id="compile-the-program">Compile the Program</h1> <p>Chapter 9 gave the optimizer something to pursue: a metric. That does not mean we should let an optimizer mutate the accepted program.</p> <p>Compilation in DSPy is the process of taking a program, optimizer-visible evidence, a metric, and an optimizer, then producing a candidate program state.</p> <hr> <h2 id="1-baseline-and-candidate-are-different-objects">1. Baseline and candidate are different objects</h2> <p>Before compiling, name the boundary:</p> <p>A candidate is not the new production program. It is a proposed program version that must be evaluated.</p>