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I do not agree in the general case. There are very useful DSL compilers which do not consider performance at all, but just compile to a target which does the op

I do not agree in the general case. There are very useful DSL compilers which do not consider performance at all, but just compile to a target which does the optimization for them (JVM, LLVM IR or even just C)

auselen 2y ago
Yes but those are called transpilers, right?
- odjdnejej 2y ago
  There is no fundamental difference between a compiler, transpiler and interpreter. The techniques employed are very similar