Re: IL design?

"Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
14 Dec 2006 17:27:03 -0500

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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 14 Dec 2006 17:27:03 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 06-12-055
Keywords: history
Posted-Date: 14 Dec 2006 17:27:03 EST

> [Quite a few years ago at Bell Labs there was a language called LIL,
> intended to be lower level and closer to the hardware than C, and
> therefore producing better code. They found that every time LIL
> seemed to be doing better than C, they could just tweak the C
> compiler's code so eventually LIL was seen to be pointless. -John]


http://www.ultimate.com/phil/lil/


Russ


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