Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!farber@UDEL-HUEY From: Dave Farber Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: an old idea whose time has come Message-ID: <7609@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 16:20:30 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7609 Posted: Mon Jan 21 16:20:30 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 24-Jan-85 05:28:19 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 9 That brings back very fond memories. In fact the 1401 Fortran compiler with all its 63ish passes many times compiled faster than the 7090 Fortran on small programs. That was the first case I have seen of the notion that the program stayed in memory and the compiler was passed over the program mapping it with each pass. Some wags said that the reason there was 63 passes is there were 32 written by 32 different people and the other 30 ish did nothing but map the output of one pass into that of the next one. Must be wrong. IBM would never do that.. would they?