From: pertti.kellomaki@tut.fi   
      
   Tony wrote:   
   > On modern desktop hardware, would anyone even notice the reduction of   
   > program performance because of the rather stark non-optimised back end   
   > code generation? (My guess is not, for 80% of software).   
      
   Given that a lot of production code runs in interpreted Python,   
   probably not.   
      
   > (I read the documentation on C-- and think it would be better to have   
   > an assembly language toolkit for major processors with the commonly   
   > generated code wrapped in C functions: setting up a stack, etc.)   
      
   Maybe someone has already suggested this to you, but if you are   
   looking for an intermediate language, LLVM is worth checking out.   
   It will give you back ends for many popular processors.   
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   Pertti   
      
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