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From: RMCCU@CUNYVM (Robert Chambers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: Rexx compiler(s)
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Date: 22 Aug 90 14:06:26 GMT
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There are some applications where compiling a REXX exec will not affect
performance much at all, one of these is an exec that does mostly system
calls. IE

Global's, Filedef's ,SET's  and things of this nature.

Interpret of course will not work, but for the most part any programmer
worth his/her salt can come up with ingenous ways around using this function.

If you have an application that is not suitable for compilation thats just
too bad, I mean the last X in REXX does stand for eXecutor after all!

I think people yearning for speed will have to break down and learn
assembler, You won't get any faster than that.  Compiled REXX won't come
close - Unless the REXX compiler is really really intelligent (which I
doubt)