This document describes the compilation environment of Mercury<\/a>. It describes<\/p>\n Mercury programs can be compiled to executables via any one of three target languages: C<\/a>, Java<\/a> and C#<\/a>. The most frequently used target language is C, for two main reasons. The first is that several important parts of the Mercury system, such as \u2018mdb\u2019, \u2018mprof\u2019 and \u2018mdprof\u2019, are implemented only when targeting C. The second is that targeting C yields the fastest executables.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n