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Re:Orbit: An Optimizing Compiler for Scheme (1986) [pdf] by dTal on Sunday August 20, 2017 @10:33AM (#15058530)
> It gains some advantages by using (highly idiomatic) C as an intermediate language

Do you perhaps mean 'idiosyncratic'? As you point out, the generated C is almost unreadable, and not "idiomatic C" at all.

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Re:Orbit: An Optimizing Compiler for Scheme (1986) [pdf] by raattgift on Sunday August 20, 2017 @05:26PM (#15060328)
Yes.
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