Jim wrote...
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.
Jim, I didn't say that [an] "interpreter was *so* cleverly written that it
could beat *any* compiler"
Matter of fact, I was simply rebutting your assertion that a compiler was
always faster and if it's not, that the compiler must be broken. That is a
sweeping generalization that is just plain BS.
Jay