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Taking GC seriously in the design of a low-level compiler-target language was one of the aspects that I found very interesting about the C-- project of Simon Pe
by _delirium 12y ago
Taking GC seriously in the design of a low-level compiler-target language was one of the aspects that I found very interesting about the C-- project of Simon Peyton Jones & Norman Ramsey. But it unfortunately didn't get anywhere near the same backing/momentum as LLVM, and now seems defunct.
- hga 12y agoIndeed, and I found the whole concept to be excellent. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, it's defunct outside of its use in the GHC. E.g. the Quick C-- compiler was recently archived here https://github.com/nrnrnr/qc-- https://github.com/nrnrnr/qc--