9 Feb
2010
9 Feb
'10
10:06 a.m.
What
"commonly used" constructs are these that are so horribly
inefficient that they would make a multi-GHz processor stumble?
(And in what language(s)?)
OBJECTS!
Our processors have registers, ALUs, and memory locations...not
objects. (iAPX432 notwithstanding) Constructs that don't map to
that paradigm are going to be inefficient, to a degree that
corresponds to how badly they match the paradigm. And objects don't
map to it at all.