Re: What's lacking: a good intermediate form

Pertti Kellomaki <pertti.kellomaki@tut.fi>
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:55:25 +0200

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From: Pertti Kellomaki <pertti.kellomaki@tut.fi>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:55:25 +0200
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 09-02-132
Keywords: UNCOL, performance
Posted-Date: 27 Feb 2009 07:33:53 EST

Tony wrote:
> On modern desktop hardware, would anyone even notice the reduction of
> program performance because of the rather stark non-optimised back end
> code generation? (My guess is not, for 80% of software).


Given that a lot of production code runs in interpreted Python,
probably not.


> (I read the documentation on C-- and think it would be better to have
> an assembly language toolkit for major processors with the commonly
> generated code wrapped in C functions: setting up a stack, etc.)


Maybe someone has already suggested this to you, but if you are
looking for an intermediate language, LLVM is worth checking out.
It will give you back ends for many popular processors.
--
Pertti


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