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   Simon Clubley to arne@vajhoej.dk   
   Re: ISO: The Eiffel OO programming langu   
   31 Mar 25 12:28:26   
   
   From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-03-28, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   > On 3/28/2025 3:15 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   >> On 2025-03-27, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   >>> or:   
   >>> - people use a different backend than LLVM (GCC, custom, whatever)   
   >>   
   >> If anyone knows of a serious backend code generator other than LLVM   
   >> or GCC, please feel free to point me at it. :-)   
   >   
   > The market for super optimizing compiler backends for x86-64   
   > seems to be becoming a duopoly.   
   >   
   > But if you can live with less optimization and less maturity,   
   > then I believe there are options. Google finds options like   
   > Cranelift and QBE.   
   >   
      
   Thanks. Cranelift is written in Rust so that's a limiting factor about   
   where you can run it. QBE appears to be 64-bit only, so you can't use   
   it to generate code to run on 32-bit embedded boards.   
      
   Thanks however,   
      
   Simon.   
      
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