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maybewhenthesunlast Saturday at 9:58 PM1 replyview on HN

>Adding new backends should be trivial.

Sounds like famous last words :-P

And I don't really know about faster once you start to handle all the edge cases that invariably crop up.

Point in case: gcc


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fc417fc802last Sunday at 3:40 AM

It's the classic pattern where you redefine the task as only 80% of the original.