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		Annatar on June 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lisp System Implementation What does owning all these processors have to do with bytecodes and VM's? What kind of a statement is that?

new4thaccount on June 1, 2019 [–]

I assume he means that the intermediate code allows for easier abstractions to support all those different processors instead of writing a specific machine code compiler for each one.

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