For a compiler writer, generating good machine code for a variety of platforms is hard work. One might try to reuse a retargetable code generator, but code generators are complex a...
Implementing a new programming language by the means of a translator to an existing language is attractive as it provides portability over all platforms supported by the host langu...
Jason Baker, Antonio Cunei, Filip Pizlo, Jan Vitek
Many high-level language compilers generate C code and then invoke a C compiler for code generation. To date, most of these compilers link the resulting code against a conservativ...
A Java bytecode-to-C ahead-of-time compiler (AOTC) can improve the performance of a Java virtual machine (JVM) by translating bytecode into C code, which is then compiled into mac...