Re: TIL redux (was Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?)

[Simon Cozens]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 08:33:23PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> so the TIL generated code would still to parameter setup, then an
> indirect function call and then result handling. it should still be
> faster than an interpreter and simpler to generate than fully compiled
> code.

Is this actually, in any sense of the word, true?

I mean, given three-address code, I find anything equally difficult to
generate. 

I don't see anything that distinguishes this from the ordinary process of
generating code with a runtime library and a stack.

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