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nemesis wrote:
> oh! Didn't know that. Such a crazy idea, after all... what's the point
The point was that when your link takes 45 minutes and a full recompile
takes 4 hours, you build your lower-level libraries once, link them into the
interpreter, and then develop the next layer of functionality in the
interpreter until you're ready to compile *that* layer.
I.e., it was really more useful as a REPL sort of thing than anything in
production. Plus, IIRC, it did things for you like looking for buffer
clobbering and such, if you told it to. And allowed breakpoints and all
that stuff. But mainly I used it to avoid the overhead of compile and link
during development.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Understanding the structure of the universe
via religion is like understanding the
structure of computers via Tron.
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