The History of the Native Code Generator

The nice thing about the native code generator was that it didn't need the evil manger. You could generate exactly the assembly code that you wanted because you had full control over what was being generated. But obviously the downside is that you have to write a separate native code generator for every backend that you want to implement. So somebody had to go and write a spark code generator. And I think we had spark and alpha and x86. X86 had been ported to at the time.