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  7. Date: Wed, 25 Feb 98 12:00:29 -0500
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  9. From: Paul Abrahams <abrahams@acm.org>
  10. To: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
  11. Cc: abrahams@acm.org (Paul Abrahams)
  12. Subject: Translation into C
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  17.  
  18. Mark Evans suggested that the reason one might want an Icon to C
  19. translator is that the resulting program will execute faster because it
  20. doesn't need to be interpreted.  But I wonder how much difference that
  21. would really make.  If the C program spends most of its time calling
  22. library routines, then I wouldn't expect much difference at all.
  23.  
  24. Does anyone have statistics that might answer this question?
  25.  
  26. Paul Abrahams
  27. abrahams@acm.org
  28.  
  29.