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		vanderZwan on July 2, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flattening ASTs and other compiler data structures Aren't stack machines the bread and butter of many intermediate representations? Or is that more of an interpreter thing than a compiler thing?

pjmlp on July 2, 2023 [–]

They are for executable formats.

On compiler IR, the modern way is to use SSA rather.

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