> > 3. speed - not a big deal. Hardware cheap enough. > > Speed definitely does matter for some apps: application servers, > database servers etc. So you can't generalize this.
This is my view too.. purely playing devils advocate there.. :-) > > > 4. size - shipping an interpreted file usually smaller than exe/elf > > Not if you count the interpreter. Granted, you must download that only once. > This advantage can be had with compiled languages if you have a packages > system. > > > 5. uploading - uploading a 30K script file on a 56k modem is easier than > > uploading a 5MB > > binary > > Not if you count the interpreter. Try installing Python, perl or PHP, plus > all of the 'packages' you need. > > > > > What advantage of compilation? There must be something. > > You know your code is syntactically correct. With interpreted, you don't. I wonder why they haven't invented a pre-compiler that checks your script for you first.. well I think Zend IDE might do something like this.. but I've never tried Zend as I don't do that much PHP programming lately. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
