From: mw@ipx2.rz.uni-mannheim.de (Marc Wachowitz)
Subject: Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM
Date: 1997/09/20
Date: 1997-09-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6008fe$9lm$2@trumpet.uni-mannheim.de> (raw)
ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) wrote:
> Slim binaries are based on two ideas:
> - source code compresses very well
> - IO is slow.
To be practical, it's also important that compile time is reasonably small
for acceptably good code; a compiler must not use too much resources, as it's
part of the system. Some slim-binary-systems do also use post-optimization
at run time (possibly adapting to the empirical system behaviour), after
having generated relatively simple and slow code on loading. It surely helps
that Oberon(-2), the language for which slim binaries have been developed,
is extremely simple and straight-forward to compile, and as integrated part
of the Oberon operating system or a browser, it tends to stay around between
different programs. I'm not sure whether the same concept would work well for
stand-alone programs in much more complicated (for the compiler) languages.
-- Marc Wachowitz <mw@ipx2.rz.uni-mannheim.de>
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1997-09-20 0:00 Marc Wachowitz [this message]
1997-09-21 0:00 ` ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM Robert Dewar
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1997-09-15 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-11 0:00 Robert Dewar
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Jay Han
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-09-15 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-15 0:00 ` Mark L. Fussell
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-19 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-13 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-09-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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