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   Tony Finch to Jon Forrest   
   Re: Is There Still a Need for "Turbo" Co   
   18 Mar 08 14:11:18   
   
   From: dot@dotat.at   
      
   Jon Forrest  wrote:   
   >   
   >However, these days there aren't any "Turbo" language implementations   
   >that I'm aware of. Is this because modern hardware is so fast that it   
   >isn't worth developing compilers and linkers optimized for speed?   
      
   Perhaps you should looks at scripting language implementations, where the   
   code has to be compiled every time it is run, so compilation needs to be   
   fast. For example, the Lua interpreter compiles code to a register-based   
   virtual machine so its front end has a structure very similar to a simple   
   stand-alone compiler.   
      
   Tony.   
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