From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 3:37:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD6137B404; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 03:37:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2UBbBi35015; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:37:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:37:11 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" , Ilia Chipitsine , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perfomance and regular expressions Message-ID: <20020330123711.A34974@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <3CA4FC84.BAB5B698@mindspring.com> <3CA53A21.F041E72C@mindspring.com> <3CA587C2.9142DAC7@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3CA587C2.9142DAC7@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 01:39:14AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 01:39:14AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > Terry Lambert 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