On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, David Nicol wrote:
One imagines that one would construct a virtual machine architecture framework and then write a back-end that would generate "machine code" for that virtual machine, which would be a subset of ANSI C. Hey-presto, you then have a butt-ugly anything-to-ANSI-C translator, that (whoops) loses any back-end-specific optimizations.
For those who don't already know about it, LLVM (llvm.org) has a C back-end, among others.
- Joel
