Re: Reference to "First-Class Data Type"

pmetzger@shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed, 26 Feb 92 10:48:55 EST

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Newsgroups: comp.compilers
From: pmetzger@shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
Keywords: types
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 92-02-085 92-02-114
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 92 10:48:55 EST

      scott@cs.rochester.edu (Michael Scott) writes:


      Maybe, maybe not. A library C compiler (especially a simple,
      not-very-optimizing one) need not be all that expensive. You might want
      to check out Henry Massalin's Synthesis operating system; it creates and
      compiles customized pieces of itself on the fly, in order to improve
      performance.


Synthesis didn't originally include a C compiler to do its on-the-fly
internal code generation, although Henry did contemplate eventual use of a
high level language for specifying such things. He may have changed things
recently, though; however, I still doubt he would bother with compiling on
the fly; its not Henry's style to bog things down; he goes for raw speed.


Perry Metzger
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