spir Wrote: > First, "eat your own food". > > There is another reason for a (low-level static compiled) language to be > written in itself: it's a measure of its efficiency. Nicklaus Wirth said the > (only) measure of a compiler's efficiency is the speed of compiling itself. > If > you think very hard ;-), you're probably it is a very very clever assertion. > (As a side-effect, this also measures the language core's efficiency.)
Speed is determined by the algorithm complexity, not optimization.
