Re: Is There Still a Need for "Turbo" Compilers?

Hans Aberg <haberg_20080313@math.su.se>
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:47:05 +0100

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From: Hans Aberg <haberg_20080313@math.su.se>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:47:05 +0100
Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server
References: 08-03-067
Keywords: performance
Posted-Date: 18 Mar 2008 09:08:21 EDT

Jon Forrest wrote:


> Is this because modern hardware is so fast that it
> isn't worth developing compilers and linkers optimized for speed?


The Mac OS X development package Xcode has, for the development phase, a
"zero-link" feature - the code is not linked at all, except at need at
runtime.


> By using proper command line arguments to gcc, can you get
> quasi-Turbo performance compared to using arguments that result in
> highly-optimized code?


When developing in Haskell, one can use the interpreter Hugs, or GHCi,
and then make binaries using the compiler GHC. The programs runhugs and
runhaskell can interpret Haskell scripts.


      Hans Aberg

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