OpenEuphoria

Re: Compiler questions

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Nov 11, 2003
• 456 views

Guenther wrote:

> Mike schrieb:
>>
>> I am about to start writing a compiler which I hope will be as easy to
>> use as Euphoria but generate executables that run at asm speed. This
>> project seems quite ambitious (though that never stopped me before) and
>> I would like to get some views from the list on the following questions.
>> I have some opinion about most of them but a variety of concisely
>> expressed arguments will help me definitely
>> decide each point.
>
> To answer your questions you first have to tell us, what you want to do
> with the new compiler.
>
> Maybe:
> If it is used near machine-code you will need many bit-operations
> if it is used for web applications you will need many control
> structures.
>
> there are already C-compilers which produces fast code
>    dont invent a new one
>
> easier to use is for example the xbasic-compiler. It makes
> assembler-code.
> but it already exists.
>
> Maybe the world needs something like a fast java-compiler ?
>
> Euphoria was invented because of the idea with the new datastructures.
> when you create an EU-compiler which produces code which is twice as
> fast ...

Or how about an EuphoriaToAsm translator?

> You should have a new idea and then implement it in a compiler.
>
> Maybe the world needs somthing like rpg in the big IBM-machines for=20
> running on a pc and is freeware. it would help to write fast and secure
> commercial applications.
>
> guenther schott

Regards,
   Juergen

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