rschatz

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1. 1.▲
   by rschatz 4y ago

   Truffle and partial evaluation also works on native-image. You could say this is a VM where there are no bytecodes anymore.
2. 2.▲
   by rschatz 4y ago

   I don't think the original TruffleC is available anymore. But TruffleC evolved into the GraalVM LLVM runtime. We're now running the C programming language on GraalVM indirectly, by compiling it to LLVM bitcode first. The core idea
3. 3.▲
   by rschatz 4y ago

   You can still use pointers. It's a bit hidden, but there are things like `Unsafe.allocateMemory`, `Unsafe.getByte` and so on ;)