• heavy@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      It… Kind of was though, IR gives us a way to translate higher level concepts to lower (but not the lowest) level representation. It also gives us a way to optimize before machine translation.

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        5 days ago

        but it’s produced by a machine (front end) for a machine (back end) so they can talk to each other

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          5 days ago

          Yeah but a human can still interact with it. Mostly for optimizations or making more translations, but generally “it’s not for humans” would be a bit overloading