Delayed Gratification and Valent Blocks

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The compiler does not need to emit machine code as soon as it reads an instruction. Instead, it can accumulate a small very focused representation using a stack machine and make better decisions once "side effects" actually occur or when something actually needs to become a value. Wago compiles Wasm directly to machine code without using a whole-function intermediate representation, while using very little memory at compile time.

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