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I always wonder about the final conversion to assembly. Do you really need to learn all the instructions, the linking, the binary formats and all that stuff ?

• tlb 12y ago
  My favorite way is to output C, which is conveniently human-readable for debugging. Many people also like the LLVM back end.
  • element11 12y ago
    I new about that possibility but how efficient is it compared to other techniques ?
    • samatman 12y ago
      Nim is competing effectively by using this tactic. It's efficient.
    • pjmlp 12y ago
      It is the approach taken by Eiffel. Byte code interpreter for the IDE and compilation to native code via C for distribution. Also how the first C++ compiler used to generate code.