nemesis wrote:
> Look up Stalin Scheme.  A heavily agressive optimizing compiler for 
> Scheme that quite a few times generates C code that beats hand written C 
> code.  If you look at the C source it outputs, you'll be shocked by how 
> badly it treats C as truly portable assembly.  Lots of structs and loop 
> unrolls.  Worthy of the name.

Sure. It generates code you wouldn't dream of spending the time to generate 
by hand. But it's still not going to be faster than the best C that can be 
written for that platform.   (That's kind of a "duh, no kidding" statement, 
sure.)

Contrast with something that generates machine code natively, which might 
output code that your C compiler would never output, for example.

If your front-end outputs C, you're never going to out-perform the C code it 
generates. If your C compiler can't take advantage of the GPU to do math or 
can't hook into interrupt vectors directly or ..., then your language isn't 
going to do better.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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