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I wish they wouldn't use the word interpreter, because as far as I'm aware this is not an interpreter. REPL would be the correct term, to my knowledge.
by microcolonel 9y ago
I wish they wouldn't use the word interpreter, because as far as I'm aware this is not an interpreter. REPL would be the correct term, to my knowledge.
- MereInterest 9y agoAgreed. As far as I can tell, it compiles each statement into machine code, then executes it. Not at all interpreting. This leads to some interesting bugs, such as a period when it was incompatible with gcc 5 or higher, because the clang backend couldn't yet output code compatible with gcc's new ABI.