From: Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gabriel Sechan wrote:
It actually tends to be a loss- you're now going through 2 levels of
compilation, which may destroy optimizations available at the original
level, and takes away almost all ability of the developer to actually
optimize (asside from the high level optimization of picking the best
algorithm).
Nowadays the consensus (which I agree with) seems to be that developers
should not be worrying about optimization of anything but their own
algorithms.
ANd this type of negligent and quite frankly unprofessional thinking is why
my Athlonx2 has problems running the same application load my pentium2
333MHz did. We write poor, slow, buggy code.
And in the rare cases where they do need to optimize other things they
should be writing in high level languages and then linking in their own
optimized C or even further optimized assembly code.
"High level languages" is bullshit. The fact is its just as quick to write
a program in C as it is in Python, Perl, Java, etc- provided you're
experienced equally in those languages (obviously coding in a language
you're not experienced with is always a penalty to speed). And the data all
shows this- development speed is not going up despite the number of "high
level" languages around today.
Gabe
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