Hi Hank, the quote you are referring to, is not from Nicolas actually ;) As for Turbo Pascal: Wasn't it a great time - the complete ide on a 5.25 disk and still some space left for for your own code :)
Cheers, Ralf. hank williams wrote: > Nicolas, > > I have not written an actionscript compiler. The last compiler I wrote > was in college. And that was 20 years ago. > > But I can say that turbo pascal, in 1984 or 1985 was blazingly fast. I > was running it on a <50Mhz computer. > > We are now running machines that are 1ghz to 3ghz. > > To suggest that OCAML is the only way or that it is "super critical" > to making a fast compiler is, to me, ludicrous. > > The fact that the MM compiler was so slow is a function of the > heritage of their software and the fact that it was slowly evolved > over time. By the time we got to the most recent versions it was old > creaky code. It happens. We all thank you for your excellent work in > providing them a little competition. > > You are a super smart guy, obviously, but it doesnt mean that you are > the only smart guy and that others "need to learn about compilers" in > order to participate in the discussion. Throwing the "im smarter than > you cuz I wrote the compiler you use " trump card really isnt arguing > in a fair way. If you think he is wrong (and I dont think so) provide > some hard facts. Engage in an intellectual discussion, without the > unsupported, slightly demeaning, conculsory statements. > > Regards, > Hank > > On 10/25/05, Nicolas Cannasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>One of the reasons mtasc is so fast AFAIK is its written in OCaml >>> >>>I dont agree with this. There is no reason a flex/bison based compiler >>>would be any slower and also there is going to be a much bigger pool >>>of potential developers. >> >>I think you should learn about compilers before being confident while >>stating such things. >>Flex and Bison are not compiler tools but lexer and parser tools. They're >>used by compilers but they are far from being the most important parts. >> >>Nicolas >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>osflash mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
