Re: Curious About C--

Sunburned Surveyor scripsit:

>  [1] Is a program converted from a high-level language to C--, and then from 
> C-- to machine code/assembly language on the target platforms?

Yes, exactly.

>  [2] What is the difference between C-- and something like a Java Virtual 
> Machine? Would you not need a "C-- Virtual Machine" to run C-- code on the 
> different architectures?

You need a small library, but not a whole virtual machine.  C-- is compiled
ahead of time (not just-in-time) to native code.

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