Jonathan S. Shapiro schrieb:
> 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.

Why?

And what do you mean by "compiling to assembler"? I suppose that's
compiling to x86, and there's lots of systems that are not x86, in the
embedded world there even are a lot of architectures in use not targeted
by gcc.
C is today's (only) portable assembler.

Philipp
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