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SomeHacker44 on June 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lisp System Implementation

Counting general purpose CPUs only, I have so many in my house it isn't even funny. 6502, Z80, MIPS (64-bit), Alpha, SPARC, Ivory, 680x0, x86(_64), ARM (32/64), PowerPC and a lot of variants, and some I do not even know offhand (Xerox, TI). I am actually ashamed to have no RS/6000, PA-RISC or Itanium to go with it.

So... Thank the world for IR, ByteCodes and VMs.

Annatar on June 1, 2019 [–]

What does owning all these processors have to do with bytecodes and VM's? What kind of a statement is that?

new4thaccount on June 1, 2019 | [–]

I assume he means that the intermediate code allows for easier abstractions to support all those different processors instead of writing a specific machine code compiler for each one.

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