On 11/19/2011 9:32 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Regarding the efficiency of native code in other languages,
do you consider efficiency the hability to do low level tricks
with the language or generating proper native code?
The ability to write "tricks" is important, because no language is perfect.
But even more important is to support a style of code that maps efficiently onto
what the underlying CPU can do directly.
For example, if language X's integers are defined to be 33 bits wide, that is
not going to be very efficient on a 32 bit CPU.
