On 10 March 2010 23:09, Philipp Klaus Krause <[email protected]> wrote: > Jonathan S. Shapiro schrieb: >> 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. > > So it is decided that bitc shall no be usable for embedded systems? > > Philipp
Remember, Java is used on cellphones and even chip-cards. Besides that I read something about targeting assembly just a moment ago. Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
