Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
>> I'd already raised the issue that I felt that a byte-coded (or JIT'd) back-
>> end to any SDL was necessary for speed. If this was exposed and formally
>> documented then, firstly, more or less any language could be used with it
>> (assuming someone wants to write the translator), and secondly, portability
>> is at least vaguely possible by providing a reverse-compiler that outputs
>> some form of 'standard' SDL (whatever we end up calling 'standard' is up to
>> question of course).
> 
> Maybe we need something more POV-Ray specific, but I thought I should bring
> this up anyway... Have you heard of the Parrot bytecode[1]?

Check out llvm.org

	Thorsten

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