22 Oct
2006
22 Oct
'06
11:07 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
The code could get as bad as:
(snip)
I have actually seen compiled code this awful.
(snip)
Would this be the fault of the runtime or the
compiler?
As you demonstrated yourself, the compiler. Which is still my point.
I accept that there have been some truly crappy compilers where a
well-written interpreter was able to beat them in execution speed. But
what I take offense to is the notion of some people here that the
interpreter was *so* cleverly written that it could beat *any* compiler
for that language, which is just BS.
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