Paulo Pinto wrote: > AST/symbol table manipulation is way faster than reparsing code. > > People keep talking about D and Go compilation speed, while I was already > enjoying such compile times back in 1990 with Turbo Pascal in computers much > less powerfull than my laptop. > > But C and C++ with their 70's compiler technology, somehow won the > market share, > and then people started complaining about compilation speeds. > > Adele Golberg, once wrote a paper telling how C made the compiler technology > regress several decades.
Do you happen to remember to exact title of that paper? Thanks. Jens
