Re: : hitech compiler - deliberately generating poor code in free version?

> It used to be that one was taught to have their compiler output  
> "standard format intermediate code" (usually triple operand things  
> that matched no real machines at all:  "operation source1, source2 ==>  
> destination".)   Then, "later", one would write a code generator that  
> would optimize that in ways specific to a destination CPU.  (actually,  
> I guess you get at least three chances to optimize; you can optimized  
> the intermediate code, optimize the generation of real code, and then  
> optimize the resulting machine code.)
>
> The Hi-tech compiler *is* (was?) multi-target, so it probably has some  
> sort of common back-end and does something very like this sort of code  
> generation.