A list of common bugs

[Kagamin]

spir Wrote:

> First, "eat your own food".
> 
> There is another reason for a (low-level static compiled) language to be 
> written in itself: it's a measure of its efficiency. Nicklaus Wirth said the 
> (only) measure of a compiler's efficiency is the speed of compiling itself. If 
> you think very hard ;-), you're probably it is a very very clever assertion. 
> (As a side-effect, this also measures the language core's efficiency.)

Speed is determined by the algorithm complexity, not optimization.