Re: Is There Still a Need for "Turbo" Compilers?

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
18 Mar 2008 14:11:18 +0000 (GMT)

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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 18 Mar 2008 14:11:18 +0000 (GMT)
Organization: dotat labs
References: 08-03-067
Keywords: performance, interpreter
Posted-Date: 18 Mar 2008 10:17:28 EDT

Jon Forrest <jlforrest@berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>However, these days there aren't any "Turbo" language implementations
>that I'm aware of. Is this because modern hardware is so fast that it
>isn't worth developing compilers and linkers optimized for speed?


Perhaps you should looks at scripting language implementations, where the
code has to be compiled every time it is run, so compilation needs to be
fast. For example, the Lua interpreter compiles code to a register-based
virtual machine so its front end has a structure very similar to a simple
stand-alone compiler.


Tony.
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