From: Paul Graham <pgraham@cadence.com>
Subject: Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator.
Date: 2000/04/03
Date: 2000-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38E8F9C4.6D0E137@cadence.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8c80ms$jnk$1@nnrp1.deja.com
It sounds like the Realia compiler ran about as fast as grep or some
similar text scanning program. How did you achieve such compiler
speed? Is there something about COBOL that makes it easier to compile
than Ada?
Paul
> That's a bit extreme, but I know what you mean. In particular
> the whole Realia COBOL team knew the compiler very well and
> what it generated, and that was one of the reasons this
> compiler is so fast (it compiles high quality run-time code
> for COBOL at a very high speed -- well over 100,000 lines a
> minute on a 25MHz 386, I have no idea how it does on a
> gigahertz Pentium, should be several million lines a minute :-)
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2000-03-28 0:00 ` C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator Ken Garlington
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Juergen Pfeifer
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Jim Rogers
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-03-29 0:00 ` James S. Rogers
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-03-30 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
[not found] ` <38e19656.17008608@news.shreve.net>
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-29 0:00 ` swhalen
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-30 0:00 ` swhalen
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Marc A. Criley
2000-03-29 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-02 0:00 ` swhalen
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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2000-04-02 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Paul Graham [this message]
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Gautier
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2000-03-31 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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