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| Re: algorithm performance robin51@dodo.com.au (Robin Vowels) (2018-03-27) |
| From: | rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Sun, 25 Mar 2018 07:02:11 -0000 (UTC) |
| Organization: | Rob Warnock, Consulting Systems Architect |
| References: | <6effed5e-6c90-f5f4-0c80-a03c61fd2127@gkc.org.uk> 18-03-090 18-03-092 18-03-094 |
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| Keywords: | performance, history, comment |
| Posted-Date: | 25 Mar 2018 06:47:35 EDT |
At the end of a message by Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
our august moderator noted:
+---------------
| [Back in the 1970s, the Dartmouth BASIC compiler was so fast that
| nobody bothered to save object code. It rarely took more than a few
| clock ticks from source code to starting the executable. -John]
+---------------
And lest we forget:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WATFIV
WATFOR/WATFIV [a.k.a. Univ. Waterloo FORTRAN] was a compile-and-go
system widely used to teach FORTRAN from 1965 until the late 1980s
[and in some places until >1995].
-Rob
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[Apropos of another comment, Dartmouth BASIC was a real compiler that
generated machine code. So was WATFOR/WATFIV. -John]
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