On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jonathan S. Shapiro schrieb:
>
>> There is no reason *not* to be able to target CLI/JVM.
>
> Sure, but there are resons to still have a way to compile to C.

Actually, I don't believe so. C was never an intended target. It was
only a convenience for compiler bootstrapping. For that purpose, *any*
widely used target will suffice.

The problem with compiling to C is that it isn't simple to make things
work nicely with a garbage collector, and all of the techniques that
do so impose a significant performance penalty.
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