12 Dec
2012
12 Dec
'12
6:07 a.m.
Thank you all for your replies. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com>wrote:
And I think there is probably quite a lot that is in reach for C--, but out of reach for LLVM. Why? Because before we pass the code to LLVM we do CPS-conversion.
Is there a case for making a C/C++ compiler target C-- instead of LLVM? Or does its optimizations cater more to functional programming or lazy evaluation? Thanks, Greg