On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > So it is decided that bitc shall no be usable for embedded systems?
I certainly didn't say that. As a concrete example, I still expect that we would use BitC in the next round of Coyotos implementation. Compiling to C has nothing to do with embedded system use. Indeed, compiling direct to assembler is far better than compiling to C. Concerning GC, the position in BitC has always been that (a) BitC has always been designed as a garbage collected language, but (b) BitC provides sufficient typing support to determine that a program does not allocate from the heap, allowing collection to be safely turned off. shap _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
