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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: OOP Language for OS Development
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:32:43 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.lang.eiffel Philippe Ribet <p.ribet@tele2.fr> wrote:
:  But never forget, each time you need extreme performance or 
: very specific instructions, you can use C code (inline or external 
: function call).

Is SmartEiffel just using the C calling convention (allowing a host
of languages) or must it be a C program at the other end?
(Proven and efficient matrix multiplication is not always written
in C.)


-- Georg