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

Volker Wysk <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:21:45 +0200

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I thought my message was lost, because it didn't seem to appear in my mail
client. So I wrote it again. Just ignore.

V.

Am Mittwoch, dem 26.10.2022 um 15:19 +0200 schrieb Volker Wysk:
> 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 The Mercury website seems to be outdated in several places.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.)
> 
> Because of the names, I assumed the "asm_fast" grades was pure assembler.
> And that "low-level C" meant pure, portable C.
> 
> I think you might get the impression that Mercury isn't a full-fledged
> compiler of its own, because of the description of the low-level C-backend,
> which doesn't say that it's a mixture of C and assembler.
> 
> Cheers,
> Volker
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