From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,97482af7429a6a62 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,97482af7429a6a62 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97482af7429a6a62 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: rlk@rational.com (Bob Kitzberger) Subject: Re: Language Efficiency Date: 1995/04/04 Message-ID: <3lsdnf$t6o@rational.rational.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 100814182 references: <3lmt64$stt@dplanet.p2k.cbis.com> followup-to: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.cobol organization: Rational Software Corporation newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.cobol Date: 1995-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert C. Bethel (robertb@cbis.com) wrote: : Anyone know of research papers that deal with the subject : of language efficiency? By efficiency I mean the quality : of machine binaries (code space, execution time, etc.) : given an identical program coded in several languages. If there were such papers, they would be suspect. A _language_ is merely a paper definition of syntax and semantics; you must compare language translation _implementations_ (i.e. compilers). And compiler versions, coding styles, idioms, target platforms, etc. -- Bob Kitzberger +1 (916) 274-3075 rlk@rational.com Rational Software Corp., 10565 Brunswick Rd. #11, Grass Valley, CA 95945 "...the solution to the problem is usually to pee on it" -- Dave Barry