Hi! On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> Does anyone else have other ideas for objective metrics of language > size? "Compilation time" - of course not that objective as heavily implementation specific but still an indicator for the complexity of the language :) But seriously: from my own work on an ES4 interpreter (based on the previous draft back then) I saw the biggest impact on the implementation to be in the "compilation phase". This went hand in the hand with the *advantages* of the type system, i.e. the possibility to apply optimizations before execution. In my personal book I therefore judge the complexity of a language also based on the observation whether runtime implementations typically include a compiler, i.e. offer an eval() function or not. Harri. _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
