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Article #1641Re: How to make a language downward-extensible?
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 20:05
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 20:05
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In article <STEPHEN.90Sep30235402@estragon.uchicago.edu> stephen@estragon.uchicago.edu (Stephen P Spackman) writes: > IMHO, the best way of making a language "downward-extensible" is not > to touvch the language at all. Instead, you add to the compiler's > transformation-strategy library (we're talking about a fairly radical > compiler here) a note to the effect that this piece of code you want > to go fast is equivalent to this other piece of code I agree. I just think it's more flexible to put those transformations into the code than to force a single transformation structure on all future compilers and separate the efficient code from the code proper. It's also possible to implement on today's compilers. ---Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: How to make a language downward-extensible? Message-ID: <18813:Oct120:05:4990@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 1 Oct 90 20:05:49 GMT References: <29047:Sep2816:51:1290@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <7950@scolex.sco.COM> <STEPHEN.90Sep30235402@estragon.uchicago.edu> Organization: IR Lines: 13