The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention

Pretty interesting technique

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Fil C is a very interesting project, he has lot of good ideas. Arguably he tackles a harder problem than Zig, but a lot of his ideas could be apply

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Fil-C uses a garbage collector:

so not sure how much Fil-C’s techniques can be applied to a manually managed language like Zig.

I have an interesting fact to tell you about the C programming language…

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I think Fil-C is amazing work, personally. Love the ambition. It sounds like there is runtime, compile and binary size overhead. Still worth the tradeoff for lots of important use cases IMO