Re: Intermediate Representation

staff@cadlab.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
Sat, 18 Aug 90 05:43:34 GMT

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Newsgroups: comp.compilers
From: staff@cadlab.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
Keywords: optimize, C, Fortran
Organization: CAD.LAB, Bologna, Italia
References: <1990Aug07.153407.8877@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <1990Aug13.214614.16644@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 90 05:43:34 GMT

marti@antares.inf.ethz.ch writes:


>Many language designers/implementors have turned to using C as an
>intermediate representation language, for example in the following research
>projects and/or
[...omitted for brevity...]
>Compilation speed using C as an IRL may not be overwhelming, but this
>solution is certainly portable. Of course, the quality of the generated
>machine code depends substantially on on the C compiler used as a backend.


...and don't forget Fortran... (see my msg of today in comp.lang.fortran-
f2c + Sun's cc produce code which runs almost twice as fast as Sun's
f77, for a strictly numerical code -2d complex fft- on a Sparcstation 1!).
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