Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!spdcc!esegue!compilers-sender From: rfg@ncd.com (Ron Guilmette) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Compilers 2000 Keywords: futures Message-ID: <1900@lupine.NCD.COM> Date: 6 Oct 90 15:27:50 GMT References: <9009290105.AA20332@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: compilers-sender@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us Reply-To: rfg@ncd.com (Ron Guilmette) Organization: Network Computing Devices, Inc., Mt. View, CA Lines: 21 Approved: compilers@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us In article <9009290105.AA20332@milton.u.washington.edu> Jeff Prothero writes: >Anyone (John? Preston? Peter? ...) want to offer comments on what is Right >and Wrong with the compiler field today, and what compilers will look like >ten or twenty years from now? My 2 cents worth of prognostication: VLIW, industrial-strength instruction scheduling, and industrial- strength alias analysis will be commonplace in 20 years. Incremental compilation `while-u-type' will be commonplace 20 years from now. Thus, the issue of compilation speed will be mostly moot because by the time you stop editing, your changes will have already been compiled. Impact: fewer coffee breaks. :-) -- // Ron Guilmette - C++ Entomologist // Internet: rfg@ncd.com uucp: ...uunet!lupine!rfg -- Send compilers articles to compilers@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us {ima | spdcc | world}!esegue. Meta-mail to compilers-request@esegue.