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From: Richie Bielak <richieb@calfp.com>
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1997/01/09
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Fergus Henderson wrote:

[...]
 
> I prefer compilers that provides a full range of trade-offs between
> (re)compilation speed and the efficiency of the generated code.  In
> most circumstances, programmers are best served by a compiler that
> compiles fast during development (when you want to avoid cross-module
> inlining, to avoid unnecessary recompilation) but that can pull out all
> stops for the optimized version.
> 
> There are times when you want optimizations yet you want to avoid
> cross-module optimizations, but those should be exceptions;
> automatic cross-module inlining ought to be the norm.
> 

Optimizations that require global analysis of all the classes
of a program at compile time do not work if we need dynamic loading
of classes at runtime, because adding a new class to a running system
may invalidate optimizer's assumptions.

...richie

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