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Re:Primer on Go Assembly by gameswithgo on Friday March 09, 2018 @02:25AM (#16550278)
Perhaps such a thing makes sense when you are a target for languages but not when you are just a language. Instead make sure anything that you can express with your IR can be expressed with the language?
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Re:Primer on Go Assembly by pjmlp on Friday March 09, 2018 @04:20AM (#16550626)
It always makes sense. because it is easier to port to new platforms.

A low level IR requires less effort to implement a compiler backend.

In Go's case, it is what makes the reference compiler so easy to cross-compile.

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