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At 09:12 AM 12/3/2001 -0800, Terrence Brannon wrote:
>Is there some reason that a new pseudo-architecture has be invented and
>compiled to? Why can't we simply compile to GCC's RTL and allow gcc to
>compile to C?
Because there are platforms where GCC doesn't run.
Because GCC's licensing is onerously restrictive for our purposes.
Because it makes embedding an interpreter a pain.
Because we dynamically recompile and redefine ourselves, which makes this
difficult.
Because GCC's codegen is pretty bad.
Because we've gone *over* this before. A bunch. "Use the archives, Luke!"
Dan
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