[bitc-dev] Portability

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

We looked fairly hard at C--. We decided not to use it for several
reasons:

  1. It is much lower level than we wanted to deal with.
  2. We would need to deal with GC issues ourselves anyway.
  3. It doesn't target a number of platforms we care about.
  4. Certain data types we need (notably floating point) aren't
     supported.

Given these issues, and our eventual plan to do our own code generator,
it didn't seem worthwhile to take a side track.


shap