Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:37:11 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgu.chel.su>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perfomance and regular expressions Message-ID: <20020330123711.A34974@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <3CA587C2.9142DAC7@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 01:39:14AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10203292117510.1096-100000@jane.poka.net> <3CA4FC84.BAB5B698@mindspring.com> <iy4riydamz.riy@localhost.localdomain> <3CA53A21.F041E72C@mindspring.com> <bevgbebmg4.gbe@localhost.localdomain> <3CA587C2.9142DAC7@mindspring.com>
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On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 01:39:14AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes: > > > "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > > > Anybody know any languages that allow compile-time (and/or link-time) > > > > computations using (most of?) the same language? I've often desired the > > > > feature. (I suppose some preprocessor like m4 could handle some of it.) > > > > > > LISP. Forth. Smalltalk. Prolog. BASIC. Oh yeah... Java. ... > There's a long and glorious history of generating code incrementally > in an otherwise interpreted language. Java didn't invengt anything > new when it invented bytecode and JIT... mostly, it just reinvented > the UCSD P-code system from the mid/early 1970's. There was even hardware build that could directly execute p-code. I think the same chips were used (Texas Instruments??) that DEC used to build the LSI11/2 CPUs -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands We are FreeBSD. Resistance is futile. Prepare to be committed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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