On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:06:00 +0200, Brent Pinkney wrote:

>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:13 AM, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
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>> > No, you cannot remove Squeak's compiler and use only NewCompiler, if  
>> that
>> > would have been your question.
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> May I urge that all efforts include Eliot's Cog work. He is making  
> changes to the compiler to support closures and the Cog VM.

Yes, sure. A good compiler supports *any* underlying instruction set and  
architecture (within a predetermined, plan-able framework), even the  
historical ones if someone wants to afford that.

I'm used to that in my shop; I think that everybody is.

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