On 2020-08-09 at 13:07:03 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 09:31:04 +0100, Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> > declaimed the following: > > > > >By going to C you are really saying you want to use the native instructions > >of your CPU. > >Contrast that with bytecode that needs an interpreter. > > > > Unless one has located a C-compiler that generates byte-code for some > virtual machine. gcc compiles source code into different levels of virtual machines, and then those virtual machines into actual object code. Start at https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/index.html, and drill down into section 6.3.8 (Anatomy of a Language Front End) and chapter 9 (Passes and Files of the Compiler). Nothing stops you from translating your source code directly into, say, RTL. The Wikipedia page for LLVM tells me it's designed for this sort of thing. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
