Re: Why do we still assemble?

djohnson@arnold.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
Thu, 7 Apr 1994 07:05:16 GMT

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From: djohnson@arnold.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
Keywords: assembler, design
Organization: University of California at San Diego
References: 94-04-032
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 07:05:16 GMT

> Con: This argument is, of course, pure hogwash for today's virtual memory
> systems.


Reminds me of something I heard once. Jim Goodnow(?), principal author
for the Amiga version of Manx C said he had gone to a compiler developers
conference, anxious to learn all the latest techniques and tricks. He was
disappointed however to learn that most of the tricks involved the
assumption of a large virtual address space and were useless to him.


So I guess it's safe to assume that some compilers will want to be run in
as small a space as possible. Until there's a large computer to do cross
compiling for every small computer anyway...
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Darin Johnson
djohnson@ucsd.edu
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