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by marmaduke 3713 days ago
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)

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that would be painfully slow, as it stands now, qbe is actually quite a lot faster than gcc and clang.
So the 70% performance was about compiler performance, not compiled code performance?
no, the compiled code performance is slower than gcc, but the compiler itself executes far faster.