GSOC Linker project

[Jens Mueller]

Paulo Pinto wrote:
> 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.

Many thanks.
I couldn't find it myself and I'm interested because Fran Allen said
something similar in Coders at Work.
I didn't understand what she meant. Andrei suggested that it is mostly
(only?) about overlapping pointers to memory. I'm just curious.

Jens