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Re:Lisp System Implementation by Annatar on Saturday June 01, 2019 @10:23AM (#20069331)
I know that. It's been that way for years. His lecturing was really upsetting.
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Re:Lisp System Implementation by chrisseaton on Saturday June 01, 2019 @10:32AM (#20069375)
So what do you propose instead of using an IR? No serious compiler for decades has been without an IR, going straight to machine code. Do you have some new idea? Or do you think we should go back to syntax-directed translation? I'm not sure that's tractable - performance would be terrible.
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Re:Lisp System Implementation by Annatar on Sunday June 02, 2019 @04:50AM (#20074297)
I think the two-pass assembler method is the way to go. With hand-crafted keyword to mnemonic translation tables.
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