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by tester756 639 days ago
Correct, but I meant the performance of generated program.
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noncoml 639 days ago
I got that, but it's not a good analogy. It's the parser that is to the language what the CPU is to the instruction set
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tester756 638 days ago
I see your point, but isn't decoder part of implementation for ISA just like compiler, runtime/vm, stdlib and more... are for programming language?
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noncoml 636 days ago
Yeah, I guess neither of them is a great analogy
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