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Re:Lisp System Implementation by Annatar on Saturday June 01, 2019 @10:27AM (#20069353)
What does owning all these processors have to do with bytecodes and VM's? What kind of a statement is that?
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Re:Lisp System Implementation by new4thaccount on Saturday June 01, 2019 @10:54AM (#20069477)
I assume he means that the intermediate code allows for easier abstractions to support all those different processors instead of writing a specific machine code compiler for each one.
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