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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Language Challenge 2000
Date: 2000/02/04
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In article <389AB13D.42D3C1C1@maths.unine.ch>,
  Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch> wrote:
> > Criteria:
>
> >         a)  Execution time
> >         b)  Size of executable
>
> In addition one can compress the .exe with UPX, keep or not
> keep the debug info, etc.

Or better yet, put all of the code in a runtime library! Then all you'd
need is a call to load the library, and another to transfer control to
the library's main routine. As far as speed goes, odds are this is going
to be a toy problem, where load time will be a significant part of
execution time. So we make sure another program pre-loads the library so
that it is already in memory when the toy program is invoked. We win!
Woo Hoo!

So what language can we use that will make a library load and procedure
call take the least time/space? What a wonderful basis for picking the
language to use for your next project! Reliability? Extensibility?
Portability? Support for programming in the large? Bah!

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