Re: run parse tree efficiently

Jeff Kenton <Jeffrey.Kenton@comcast.net>
9 Jan 2004 23:36:09 -0500

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From: Jeff Kenton <Jeffrey.Kenton@comcast.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 9 Jan 2004 23:36:09 -0500
Organization: Comcast Online
References: 04-01-018 04-01-024
Keywords: interpreter
Posted-Date: 09 Jan 2004 23:36:09 EST

Michael Tiomkin wrote:
> Besides the rarely used feature of evaluating a character string as
> a part of your program, there is no difference between interpreted and
> compiled languages.


You can also do this in compiled languages, as long as the compiler is part of
the run-time system. JIT compilers could do this (the XSLT language often has
an "evaluate()" extension function), as could some of the old compile-and-go
student compilers.


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