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Re: questions re Javascript

From Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: questions re Javascript
Date 2015-09-25 22:15 +0000
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On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:13:27 -0400, Jeff Higgins wrote:

> On 09/25/2015 03:59 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:

>> However, there is an interpreted language, Tiny C, which is purely
>> interpreted. It dates from the time when an Intel 8080 was considered a
>> desirable mpu. Tiny C was really an IDE, being a combined
>> editor,compiler,interpreter - in short, very similar to a traditional
>> BASIC.
>>
>> Tiny C claimed to be a very small (integer) subset of C, but in fact
>> doesn't look a lot like it. Here's 'hello World' in tiny C:
>>
>> hello-world [
>>    pl "Hello, world"
>> ]
>>
>
This is the Tiny C I was describing, which is a pure interpreter:
http://primepuzzle.com/tiny-c/tinyc-doc.html



However, there's another Tiny C which is just a very fast compiler and is 
not an interpreter. It only generates X86 code, claims near ISO C99 
conformance, that no assembly or linking is needed. I first found it here:

http://bellard.org/tcc/

but this looks to be the motherlode: 
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/tinycc

> Interpretation of HLL code line by line by some shell is a definition of
> interpretation? Some others in this thread have stated their definition
> of interpretation as the output of Javac running in a JVM.
>
Not necessarily so. 

AFAICT almost all the modern interpreters are really "compile&go" 
systems, which is how Perl or awk work, with the compile phase generating 
some sort of task-related P-code that can be executed so fast that, even 
with the compilation/translation preliminary, this approach executes much 
faster than line-by-line iterative source interpretation ever could.

BTW, note that the Savannah project's TCC compiler (the one you found) 
also falls into this category because they claim that a shell script like 
this:

#!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run     
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
   printf("Hello, world\n");
   return 0;
}

would be perceived to run at a similar seed to, say:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello World"

However, TCC is a just a very fast compilation system, not an interpreter.
 


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  Re: questions re Javascript Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-09-01 23:26 +0000
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                Re: questions re Javascript Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-09-25 01:15 +0000
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              Re: questions re Javascript Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-09-24 20:55 -0400
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                Re: questions re Javascript Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-25 14:14 -0400
                Re: questions re Javascript Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-09-25 19:59 +0000
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                Re: questions re Javascript Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-09-25 22:15 +0000
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