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Overview
Since 1995 H.E.I. provides tools (BEG - portable native code
generator tool) and consulting in automatic retargetable code generation and
develops custom code generator(s).
An (automatic) code generator is a computer program that
automatically writes or translates computer programs. There are code
generators for native code and for source code. Native code
generators are typlically used inside compilers. Source code
generators on the other hand are used to accelerate the programming
job by automizing it. Typically source code generators are very beneficial
when developing a variety of similar programs, e.g. a family of
applications that share a common application domain.
The H.E.I. (BEG) tool uses source code
generation to build (a family) compilers for various different target
architectures (e.g. Pentium, IA-64, ARM, SPARC) and all these compilers
include native code generators.
H.E.I. also uses source code generation in the RADpage and heitml
products to create applications by composing software components
in the web application domain.
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