Challenges

• Need to integrate compiler optimizations for C and type-safe OO languages

  • Pointer arithmetic implies more alias analysis
  • Taking address of local variables implies more alias analysis
  • Struct operations need to be optimized

• GC:

  • Support for interior pointers
  • Support for pinning

• Need to optimize box/unbox operations

• Support user-controlled data layout

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