GSOC Linker project

[Jens Mueller]

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