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‏ 21compilers and 3 orders of magnitude in 60 minutes [pdf]

by bishala on 4/14/19, 7:01 AM with 12 comments

• by no-such-address on 4/14/19, 12:07 PM

  The information and know-how in this talk is amazing.

  It would be interesting to know the author's thoughts about other early influential software in the early PC era, such as the UCSD P-system (was UCSD Pascal an early version of Turbo Pascal?) and Microsoft Basic (fitting the whole interpreter, including floating point arithmetic emulation into 6.5K of RAM on an Intel 8080 seems like a minor miracle today.)

• by pizlonator on 4/14/19, 3:42 PM

  This excludes the world of high-power JITing like JSC and HotSpot server. It’s possible to have an “all the optimizations” compiler outside the ahead of time space.

• by tobr on 4/14/19, 11:25 AM

  Trying to figure out who the author is, but it’s not very clear. Probably Graydon Hoare? Can someone confirm?

• by carapace on 4/14/19, 4:42 PM

  That was awesome!

  (Though it doesn't mention Prolog compilation research.)