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From: ralph@CS.ARIZONA.EDU ("Ralph Griswold")
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Subject: Re:  compiler, compiler, where art thou?
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Date: 13 Feb 90 13:27:50 GMT
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The so-called Icon compiler, iconc, has not been supported for any
version of Icon for many years, and there never hsa been one for the
Atari ST.

The term compiler in this context is somewhat misleading.  The iconc
you refer to compiled Icon mostly into subroutine calls and was only
5-10% faster than the interpreter.  Granted there are other advantages
to iconc, like being able to link C functions.

However, iconc was not portable and we did not have the resources to
maintain it as a separate program.

  Ralph Griswold / Dept of Computer Science / Univ of Arizona / Tucson, AZ 85721
  +1 602 621 6609   ralph@cs.arizona.edu  uunet!arizona!ralph