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- From: gat@forsight.jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat)
- Newsgroups: comp.compilers
- Subject: Re: Pros and cons of high-level intermediate languages
- Keywords: translator, design, C, Scheme
- Message-ID: <92-07-107@comp.compilers>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 17:04:36 GMT
- References: <92-07-064@comp.compilers> <92-07-082@comp.compilers>
- Sender: compilers-sender@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- Reply-To: gat@forsight.jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat)
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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- tarvydas@tsctrl.guild.org (tarvydas) writes:
- >>I am looking for examples in which using C as IL
- >>will lead to inefficiencies.
-
- [Long list of complaints about C deleted.]
-
- Richard Kelsey wrote a dissertation about using a subset of Scheme as an
- intermediate language for compilation. It seems like an elegant approach
- to me (though to be perfectly honest I don't really have the background to
- evaluate it properly). Is anyone familar enough with this work to offer a
- more educated opinion on it?
-
- Erann Gat
- gat@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov
-
- P.S. Kelsey's dissertation can be obtained from the Yale CS department.
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