Re: The melting ice technology (2): levels

pdlogan@ccm.jf.intel.com (Patrick D. Logan)
Mon, 16 May 1994 15:18:28 GMT

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.compilers
From: pdlogan@ccm.jf.intel.com (Patrick D. Logan)
Keywords: interpreter, Eiffel, Lisp, C++
Organization: Intel / ProShare
References: 94-05-019 94-05-052
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 15:18:28 GMT

lgm@polaris.ih.att.com (Lawrence G. Mayka) writes:
>But this all only demonstrates that the principle of offering more
>than one space/run-speed/compilation-speed tradeoff is a sound one.


Plus the technology of easily and quickly replacing a module compiled with
one set of choices by the module compiled with a different set of choices,
i.e the "melting ice" idea.


As a counter-example, Microsoft C++ can create p-code or native code. So
you can choose the space/speed most apprporiate. But they don't have a
"melting ice" capability for an interpreter-like behavior. Maybe someday?
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