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- From: pk@cs.tut.fi (Kellom{ki Pertti)
- Newsgroups: comp.compilers
- Subject: Re: Why is compiled basic slower than C? (Basic is the future)
- Keywords: interpreter
- Message-ID: <92-08-130@comp.compilers>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 08:08:50 GMT
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- Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
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- burley@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) writes:
- Nevertheless, interpreters are still, to varying degrees
- for each language, easier to write than compilers.
-
- True. I could write a small interpreter, be it for Basic or Lisp, with a
- fairly reasonable effort, because I could write it without any competence
- in (my case) Sparc assembly. If I were to write a compiler for the same
- language, I would have to start worrying about register windows and all
- that stuff.
-
- When it comes to the early personal computer Basic interpreters, though, I
- would suspect that people writing them were more fluent with assembly that
- high level languages.
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- Pertti Kellom\"aki
- Tampere Univ. of TeXnology
- Software Systems Lab
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