Paulo Pinto wrote: > On Monday, 7 May 2012 at 07:26:44 UTC, Jens Mueller wrote: > >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 > > I'll try to find it, as I don't recall the title. > > I just remember that it made some remarks how primitive C was in > regard > to Algol toolchains.
Many thanks. I couldn't find it myself and I'm interested because Fran Allen said something similar in Coders at Work. I didn't understand what she meant. Andrei suggested that it is mostly (only?) about overlapping pointers to memory. I'm just curious. Jens
