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Re:The Rewards of Creating a Programming Language by tlb on Friday February 13, 2015 @12:09AM (#9042976)
My favorite way is to output C, which is conveniently human-readable for debugging. Many people also like the LLVM back end.
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Re:The Rewards of Creating a Programming Language by element11 on Friday February 13, 2015 @12:16AM (#9042995)
I new about that possibility but how efficient is it compared to other techniques ?
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Re:The Rewards of Creating a Programming Language by samatman on Friday February 13, 2015 @12:26AM (#9043036)
Nim is competing effectively by using this tactic. It's efficient.
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Re:The Rewards of Creating a Programming Language by pjmlp on Friday February 13, 2015 @04:17AM (#9043530)
It is the approach taken by Eiffel. Byte code interpreter for the IDE and compilation to native code via C for distribution.

Also how the first C++ compiler used to generate code.

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