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Re:Miranda released as free software by kick on Saturday February 29, 2020 @02:32AM (#22449467)
Good question!

BCPL's O-Code is far different from LLVM bytecode. O-Code was little more than a virtual stack machine. Very similar to Forth, though slightly more complicated.

I could be wrong, but isn't Open64 more or less dead? The only thing I can think of that actually uses it (CUDA) isn't best-in-class.

Re:Miranda released as free software by onei on Saturday February 29, 2020 @03:20AM (#22449600)
I believe you're correct about Open64, but it was an interesting examples of a compiler when I was researching them last, particularly its usage of WHIRL [1]. It's a similar approach as used by GCC and LLVM with their front, middle and back-end approach, although I can't quite remember if it pioneered that approach or not.

[1] https://www.mcs.anl.gov/OpenAD/open64A.pdf

Re:Miranda released as free software by ZeRoo on Saturday February 29, 2020 @02:55AM (#22449532)
So u say, LLVM or whatever is insane because it's large. so what do u think about QBE[0] ?

0 : https://c9x.me/compile/

Re:Miranda released as free software by kick on Saturday February 29, 2020 @03:53PM (#22453019)
I don't know enough about QBE to give a well-informed assessment of it, so I'll refrain.