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  13. Subject: Translation into C
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  20. > Mark Evans suggested that the reason one might want an Icon to C
  21. translator is that the resulting program will execute faster because it
  22. doesn't need to be interpreted.  But I wonder how much difference that
  23. would really make.  If the C program spends most of its time calling
  24. library routines, then I wouldn't expect much difference at all.
  25.  
  26. Right.
  27.  
  28. > Does anyone have statistics that might answer this question?
  29.  
  30. I think that statistics for different implementations will vary all over the 
  31. place... I'd comment though that generally the overhead of an interpreter is 
  32. less (and the advantages are more) for higher-level languages than for 
  33. lower-level ones, for exactly the reason you yourself suggested above.
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  35. Gordon Peterson
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