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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 30 May 1995 08:39:45 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 13:54:45 GMT
From: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Message-Id: <D9E9B9.LyD@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: The University of Chicago
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <3puepa$86k@agate.berkeley.edu>, <3pv9m2$n57@nova.umuc.edu>, <3qesfp$bhj@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
Reply-To: goer@midway.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: icon notes [Re: Is there such a language...]
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>>Does the Icon compiler produce native (machine) code?
>
>Yes. It is called 'iconc'.
But the executables tend to be rather large, and in most
cases you're better off using the interpreter. To the user
there is no difference except execution speed. And the in-
terpreter is much easier to deal with (older, more reliable,
faster to create executables, etc.).
--
Richard L. Goerwitz *** goer@midway.uchicago.edu