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Re:Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo, Speeding Up Calculations 450% by pjmlp on Friday October 18, 2024 @04:34PM (#41883225)
The idea isn't new, for example Amsterdam Compiler Kit from 1980's.
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Re:Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo, Speeding Up Calculations 450% by mech422 on Friday October 18, 2024 @07:37PM (#41884459)
Ohh...thats a name I haven't heard in a while... along with the purdue compiler construction kit

funny how CLang basically blew right by them in terms of option as a 'base' to build languages on.

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Re:Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo, Speeding Up Calculations 450% by arcticbull on Saturday October 19, 2024 @01:52AM (#41885911)
LLVM -- clang is the C language family front-end to LLVM.
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Re:Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo, Speeding Up Calculations 450% by pjmlp on Saturday October 19, 2024 @02:33AM (#41886050)
It was basically dead by the time LLVM became a thing, in this industry we tend to reinvent a lot, pretending it is something utterly new.

Latest example, application servers in WebAssembly.

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