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From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Knowing Machine Code
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Date: 14 Jun 88 12:01:06 GMT
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In article <104700032@uiucdcsp> gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Perhaps we should redefine our notion of a World-class development
>system to include two compilers: One, a blindingly fast
>emit-NOPs-if-you-must compiler for prototyping.  Another would be a
>slow, methodical "build" compiler for recomputing the world when
>you're done with the final product.

	Call me stupid, but I fail to see why you need two compilers. Why
not just have an extremely fast compiler that generates better code
than the competing compilers *AND* is FASTER than it's previous version?
Then you can have your cake and eat it too: production-quality code
and near-instant turnaround.

			--Rich

"We want to have archaic and eat it too..."


Rich Siegel
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THINK Technologies Division, Symantec Corp.
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