[m-users.] Web page about backends
Julien Fischer
jfischer at opturion.com
Wed Oct 26 23:44:14 AEDT 2022
Hi,
On Wed, 26 Oct 2022, Volker Wysk wrote:
> The Mercury website seems to be outdated in several places. For instance,
> the page about backends doesn't list the assembler backend, which is the
> fastest, in my knowledge (https://mercurylang.org/about/backends.html).
That page lists all four extant backends. I'm not sure what you mean
by the assembler backend, but if you mean the backend that generates
code for the asm_fast grade etc., that's the low-level C backend.
(In asm_fast grade, the compiler emits a mix of C and assembly.)
Julien.
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