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		listeria 35 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Kent Dybvig's Scheme Machine in 400 Lines... > I wonder if an LLM would be up to the job of writing the assembly code from this? I could see a compiler doing that.

lambdaone 35 days ago [–]

I'm quite aware of the existence of compilers, having worked on bootstrapping a production LISP compiler in the past. My point being that this would be an interesting experiment to do this "naïvely", given how close C is to (for example) PDP-11 assembly code.

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