On Monday, 7 May 2012 at 07:26:44 UTC, Jens Mueller wrote:
Paulo Pinto wrote:
AST/symbol table manipulation is way faster than reparsing
code.
People keep talking about D and Go compilation speed, while I
was already
enjoying such compile times back in 1990 with Turbo Pascal in
computers much
less powerfull than my laptop.
But C and C++ with their 70's compiler technology, somehow won
the
market share,
and then people started complaining about compilation speeds.
Adele Golberg, once wrote a paper telling how C made the
compiler technology
regress several decades.
Do you happen to remember to exact title of that paper?
Thanks.
Jens
I'll try to find it, as I don't recall the title.
I just remember that it made some remarks how primitive C was in
regard
to Algol toolchains.
