Re:My Business Card Runs Linux
by giancarlostoro on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @02:11PM
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Fair enough, thanks for that, I wasn't sure, all my Rust programs have been small enough to where I havent noticed. I wonder if it would of made sense for Rust to consider this earlier on in the same way that Pascal did. I believe I heard Pascal was designed to be parsed easily by machine code.
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Re:My Business Card Runs Linux
by steveklabnik on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @05:00PM
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Parsing is not the reason why it takes a while to compile.
"Parsing" was probably not the best choice of word on the GP's part, but they meant that Pascal was specifically designed to be implementable with a naive single-pass compiler; of course that would exclude many optimizations we take for granted these days.