Plan 9 and Inferno (and, based on their compiler toolchain, also Golang) use a form of an abstract assembler/intermediate representation which delegates actual

Plan 9 and Inferno (and, based on their compiler toolchain, also Golang) use a form of an abstract assembler/intermediate representation which delegates actual code generation and optimization to the linker. More information on this can be found at https://9p.io/sys/doc/asm.html https://9p.io/sys/doc/asm.html (for Plan 9 and Inferno) and https://go.dev/doc/asm https://go.dev/doc/asm (for Go).