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Some optimisations can be described in any language (eg dead code elimination). But something that maps 1:1 to LLVM IR would work for pretty much everything.
by justincormack 12y ago
Some optimisations can be described in any language (eg dead code elimination). But something that maps 1:1 to LLVM IR would work for pretty much everything.
- avmich 12y ago"Lisp is... a good assembly language because it is possible to write Lisp in a style that directly reflects the operations available on modern computers." Peter Norvig, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming.