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Re:Intel Haskell Research Compiler by smitherfield on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:07PM (#14108850)
Core, C--, LLVM… — how many intermediate languages is it going through?!
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Re:Intel Haskell Research Compiler by mrkgnao on Thursday April 13, 2017 @03:54PM (#14110401)
Also something called STG.
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Re:Intel Haskell Research Compiler by name_for_now on Thursday April 13, 2017 @08:09PM (#14111799)
I don't think you can call the STG an IL...
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Re:Intel Haskell Research Compiler by nickpsecurity on Thursday April 13, 2017 @11:20PM (#14112525)
We can test that. Is it the target, machine code? If not, are there any optimizations that can happen between the two? If it's not machine code & can be improved, then it's probably safe to classify it as an IL. Or common sense variant: it's not the final language so it's an intermediate language. :)
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