When I did my undergraduate degree, you could opt to do that for 1 extra point. Compiling for an ISA is not that much more difficult than compiling for a byteco

When I did my undergraduate degree, you could opt to do that for 1 extra point. Compiling for an ISA is not that much more difficult than compiling for a bytecode IR like that of Java or .Net which I imagine is the typical target of these courses.