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Why a simulated PDP-11 CPU rather than compiling to wasm? I guess because wasm is pure computation with no interrupts and so forth? Also no access to the stac
by chubot 3y ago
Why a simulated PDP-11 CPU rather than compiling to wasm? I guess because wasm is pure computation
with no interrupts and so forth? Also no access to the stack
Also it’s probably a lot more work to retarget the existing compilers to new back ends
Although if this is a new Go implementation, it’s probably a lot of work anyway
- rst 3y agoNontrivial amounts of the source are PDP-11 assembly -- a lot of it in the kernel, but also bits of userland.