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by toutouast 2765 days ago
Why not just compile "primitive" functions call to respective assembly code? (+ => "add")
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> In a better compiler, we would not make plus a built-in function. We'd emit code for the assembly instruction ADD. However, making plus a function makes code generation simpler and also allows us to see what function calls look like.

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