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Subject: Re: ISO: The Eiffel OO programming language and IDE, on VMS
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:45:39 -0400
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On 3/28/2025 3:15 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2025-03-27, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> 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.

Arne