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- From: imp@Solbourne.COM (Warner Losh)
- Newsgroups: comp.compilers
- Subject: Re: Why is compiled basic slower than C? (Basic is the future)
- Keywords: interpreter, performance
- Message-ID: <92-08-108@comp.compilers>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 19:17:16 GMT
- References: <92-08-042@comp.compilers> <92-08-095@comp.compilers>
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- burley@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) writes:
- >[re whether it's worth compiling TECO]
-
- I used a TECO variant on the DECSYSTEM-20 that we had at school. The
- manual claimed to compile the code on the fly before it executed it. The
- claimed speedup was on the order of a factor of 5 due to some optimization
- tricks. It was called something like NTECO, or something like that.
-
- Warner
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