Re:Otterkit COBOL, a new free and open source COBOL compiler...
by Rochus on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:45AM
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> advantage of the dotnet compiler optimizations
That's mostly constant folding and a bit of peephole optimization; the CLI JIT or AOT compilers do most optimizations on the CIL level.
> so compiler would still be the most accurate word to describe it
Well, you do a source-to-source translation from Cobol to C#. The terminology is fuzzy, but usually we call it a transpiler if the output is yet another high-level programming language. But who cares.
That's mostly constant folding and a bit of peephole optimization; the CLI JIT or AOT compilers do most optimizations on the CIL level.
> so compiler would still be the most accurate word to describe it
Well, you do a source-to-source translation from Cobol to C#. The terminology is fuzzy, but usually we call it a transpiler if the output is yet another high-level programming language. But who cares.