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Linus Torvalds pulls pin, tosses in grenade: x86 won, forget about Arm in server CPUs, says Linux kernel supremo

Roland6 Silver badge

Re: well done

@paulll - High on something to be suggesting that he's written a compiler so clever it can target a simple state machine.

I take it you didn't study Compiler Techniques at University... I suggest you read up on the UCSD P-code system.

The way we implemented a C compiler back in the 1980's was to create an intermediate truple code from which I then wrote the various code generators (x86, 68k, etc.) the only part that required real understanding of the individual CPU's was the optimiser, where you had to really understand the specifics of individual CPU family instruction sets and the differences between say the 8086, 8088, and 80186.

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