Timeline for code generation - would C be a good compiler backend?
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 3:49 | comment | added | Lie Ryan | @RobertHarvey: I think you're describing a bytecode VM/interpreter. | |
| Feb 5, 2020 at 23:08 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | I envision a rudimentary (if naïve) transpiler as one that simply maps source instructions to methods in a C library. There's no reason why this couldn't work. Whether it works well or not is another story. | |
| Feb 5, 2020 at 23:03 | history | answered | Deduplicator | CC BY-SA 4.0 |