Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: algorithm performance, was Add nested-function support in a language the based on a stack-machine Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 07:02:11 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Rob Warnock, Consulting Systems Architect Lines: 24 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <18-03-097@comp.compilers> References: <6effed5e-6c90-f5f4-0c80-a03c61fd2127@gkc.org.uk> <18-03-090@comp.compilers> <18-03-092@comp.compilers> <18-03-094@comp.compilers> Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="56608"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: performance, history, comment Posted-Date: 25 Mar 2018 06:47:35 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2026 At the end of a message by Anton Ertl , our august moderator noted: +--------------- | [Back in the 1970s, the Dartmouth BASIC compiler was so fast that | nobody bothered to save object code. It rarely took more than a few | clock ticks from source code to starting the executable. -John] +--------------- And lest we forget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WATFIV WATFOR/WATFIV [a.k.a. Univ. Waterloo FORTRAN] was a compile-and-go system widely used to teach FORTRAN from 1965 until the late 1980s [and in some places until >1995]. -Rob ----- Rob Warnock 627 26th Avenue San Mateo, CA 94403 [Apropos of another comment, Dartmouth BASIC was a real compiler that generated machine code. So was WATFOR/WATFIV. -John]