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- From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: COMPILING SPEED
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.160940.5958@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 16:09:40 GMT
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- Dan Odom writes:
- >
- >Yes, it is. Go write a compiler for Pascal. Then write a compiler for
- >C++. You'll see.
-
- But until Turbo came along, MS-DOS Pascal compilers were total
- dogs. What's troubling here is that people are blindly accepting
- the "fact" that C++ compilers _have_ to be slow.
-
- (It may be that C++ is such a difficult language to compile that
- compilation speed is the least of a compiler writer's worries.
- Ada has a similar problem in this respect. Perhaps the language
- is unnecessarily complex--my opinion only.)
-
- --
- James Hague
- exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
-