Re: Intermediate Representation

marti@antares.inf.ethz.ch writes:

>Many language designers/implementors have turned to using C as an
>intermediate representation language, for example in the following research
>projects and/or
[...omitted for brevity...]
>Compilation speed using C as an IRL may not be overwhelming, but this
>solution is certainly portable. Of course, the quality of the generated
>machine code depends substantially on on the C compiler used as a backend.

...and don't forget Fortran... (see my msg of today in comp.lang.fortran-
f2c + Sun's cc produce code which runs almost twice as fast as Sun's
f77, for a strictly numerical code -2d complex fft- on a Sparcstation 1!).
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