Re: Intermediate forms (again?): worthwhile?

> Steven Shaw wrote:


> [C can be a perfectly reasonable intermediate language so long as you
> don't expect the C code to be readable by humans or to look anything
> like the source code. -John]


The key word being the very subjective "reasonable"? If one wanted a
replacement language for C, but with a completely different type
system, would C be a "reasonable" IL? It seems undoable for efficiency
reasons. I'm not sure how one would go about implementing a
language's type system in C and still get high performance. That is,
performance equivalent to C.
[C's type system is intended to be pretty close to what the hardware
provides. You want a different type system, you can encode it using
C's types. Think if it as a sort of high level assembler. -John]

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