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Why would language choice of compiler make any difference for efficiency of final output?

• NeuroCoder 3y ago
  They didn't say the language was the issue. It doesn't support the full C spec. But if you want a reason why language might be an issue for a compiler, it could make compilation time slower. But I think the point of this project is not real world use but fun demonstration of skill
• vgel 3y ago
  Maybe not the language choice, but the codegen of this compiler is terrible because of the single-pass shortcuts (for example, it unconditionally loads the result of all assignment operations back to the stack just in case you want to write `a = b = 1`, even though 99% of the time that load is immediately thrown away.)
• deleted 3y ago
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