[marmaduke]

If thé IL is text, and your goal is short understandable code, why not use a language like Python?

(Compiling it with Cython would allow you to provide a C api and library with only lib python as a dep)

[andrewchambers]

that would be painfully slow, as it stands now, qbe is actually quite a lot faster than gcc and clang.

[marmaduke]

So the 70% performance was about compiler performance, not compiled code performance?

[andrewchambers]

no, the compiled code performance is slower than gcc, but the compiler itself executes far faster.