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Re:A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore by steveklabnik on Friday June 21, 2019 @05:44PM (#20246539)
Rust has AST -> HIR -> MIR -> LLVM-IR. Two internal IRs and a third external one!
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Re:A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore by eridius on Friday June 21, 2019 @06:32PM (#20246805)
Good point, I forgot about HIR, though isn't HIR largely just a desugared representation of the AST?
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Re:A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore by steveklabnik on Friday June 21, 2019 @07:19PM (#20247045)
Yes, but also post macro expansion and name resolution.
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