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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Building a compiler (was: Fixed point multiplication ambiguity)
Date: 1999/02/03
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In article <7982p8$nll$2@plug.news.pipex.net>,
  "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> It's not a problem of semantics, but of compiler speed.
> Users are tolerant,
> but they don't like it when the compiler hasn't finished
> by the time they've
> got back from the loo ;-)
>
> There will be some (rare) examples of code where
> searching a context for
> valid interpretations will have to cover a very large
> number of possible
> interpretations (the 'search space'). This could take a
> long time, and
> disappoint the user as suggested above.

Such claims are totally unconvincing without evidence that
the search in question could take a noticable fraction of
the total compilation time. I don't believe for a moment
that it could, and certainly obvious tests confirm this!

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