Re: [m-users.] Web page about backends

Volker Wysk <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:03:52 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.mercury.general
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Am Mittwoch, dem 26.10.2022 um 23:44 +1100 schrieb Julien Fischer:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2022, Volker Wysk wrote:
> 
> > The Mercury website seems to be outdated in several places. For instance,
> > the page about backends doesn't list the assembler backend, which is the
> > fastest, in my knowledge (https://mercurylang.org/about/backends.html).
> 
> That page lists all four extant backends. I'm not sure what you mean
> by the assembler backend, but if you mean the backend that generates
> code for the asm_fast grade etc., that's the low-level C backend.
> (In asm_fast grade, the compiler emits a mix of C and assembly.)

Yes, that's what I meant. I assumed it was pure assembler, because of the
"asm_fast" in the grade names. And that the low-level C backend was just
(portable) C.

The backends page (about the low-level C backend) is somewhat misleading, I
think you can get the impression that Mercury isn't a full-fledged compiler
on its own.

Cheers,
Volker

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