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		amelius on June 24, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Mi... > I blame the general aversion for assembly programming to the choice of using the 8086 for PC's. Well, nowadays you can use LLVM instead and achieve portability, at perhaps a small cost in efficiency.

waynecochran on June 24, 2017 [–]

The problem with writing LLVM is that you must use Static Single Assignment (SSA) to the pseudo-registers. If I had the time I'd like to write non-SSA LLVM assembler that transpiled into SSA for you.

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