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I know the author quite well. It all started with him following "Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter. Part 1." from Ruslan's blog (https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/) where you are creating an interpreter for a pascal like language.

He then decided to spit out some c64 assembler, and it has been a pretty cool journey after that :D

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hey thanks man =) And yes, this really is how it started - with Ruslan's blog. And now, 3 years later, I've probably spent more time working on this project than I ever did on my entire education + work life combined.

Are there any issues with the performance of the compiled code compared to hand-coded assembly? I heard that 6502 and Z80 architectures are hard to target when compiling high-level language and even the best C compilers for them generate slower code than skilled assembly programmers.

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