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6 Oct 2024 11:13:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV 4 philosophy  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 9 Oct 2001 17:28:50
Message: <3bc36c12@news.povray.org>
In article <3BB### [at] hlavacek-partnercz> , Disnel 
<dis### [at] hlavacek-partnercz>  wrote:

> I think, that this is nearly impossible to create "unviersal compiler"
> for all processors and systems.

No, not really.  It is very simple but has one catch: The compiler will not
deliver optimal code.  Still, you get at least 10 to 20 times the speed of a
purely emulated virtual machine.

But as Ron mentioned, writing a just-in-time compiler is no trivial task at
all and takes a lot of time...

    Thorsten

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