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		acqq on Aug 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One VM to Rule Them All [pdf] Which representation is used to produce the static binary? Is it a native binary? What is the backend? Gcc, LLVM?

chrisseaton on Aug 18, 2013 [–]

It's just a Java program that writes bytes to a file in the object format and machine code of whatever system you're targeting. It doesn't use any other assembler or compiler apart from Graal (which is also in Java).

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