[M3devel] m3cg.i3 reduction?

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:59:41AM -0500, Tony Hosking wrote:
> 
> M3CG was designed for generality, and actually even predates the 
> Modula-3 language itself.  It is derived from code generators at DEC 
> SRC from the 1980s.

I've been thinking for a while that the Modula 3 back end and a fair 
bit of its run-time system are probably good enough to be used by other 
garbage-collected languages.  Almost no one else does a good job of 
combining parallel processing with garbage collection, for example.

-- hendrik