Agreed. 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, s

Agreed. 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.