Re: Pros and cons of high-level intermediate languages

graham@maths.su.oz.au (Graham Matthews) writes:
      ... Your translator should have compiled the loop into


for( i = 0; i < 100; i++ )
object_access(p)[i] = object_access(q)[i];
      ...


      You take a performance hit here but in the presence of GC surely you have
      to take that hit no matter what IL you use?


This is simply untrue. In the presence of GC, you can STILL store
pointers that are part of the "seed" for live data in registers. The
problem is that C optimizers don't consider such a use of registers. If
you go to assembly output, you certainly can use registers and (safely)
garbage collect.


Ron
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