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Re: dylan revival
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- Subject: Re: dylan revival
- From: Jeffrey Siegal <address@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 04:15:01 -0500
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Bruce Hoult wrote:
> A simple and lightweight Dylan-to-C compiler is possible, but wouldn't
> be worth it because the code wouldn't perform any better than with an
> interpreter.
With a very good C compiler, you might still be able to get good
performance (better than an interpreter, at least). GCC is probably not
good enough though; you'd need something with stronger interprocedural
optimization.