GSOC Linker project

[Paulo Pinto]

On Monday, 7 May 2012 at 07:26:44 UTC, Jens Mueller wrote:
> Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> AST/symbol table manipulation is way faster than reparsing 
>> code.
>> 
>> People keep talking about D and Go compilation speed, while I 
>> was already
>> enjoying such compile times back in 1990 with Turbo Pascal in 
>> computers much
>> less powerfull than my laptop.
>> 
>> But C and C++ with their 70's compiler technology, somehow won 
>> the
>> market share,
>> and then people started complaining about compilation speeds.
>> 
>> Adele Golberg, once wrote a paper telling how C made the 
>> compiler technology
>> regress several decades.
>
> Do you happen to remember to exact title of that paper?
> Thanks.
>
> Jens

I'll try to find it, as I don't recall the title.

I just remember that it made some remarks how primitive C was in 
regard
to Algol toolchains.