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> I figured I'd spend too much time struggling with that, and besides, it would make compilation slow. Is that only because of the extra compilation step, or a

• WalterBright 9y ago
  Things that make it slow: 1. Compile the code 2. Generate strings for C code (C is much larger than intermediate code). Translating things like integers to strings is slow. 3. Writing the file out, as opposed to just keeping the data in memory. C compilers are already slow (due to the preprocessor and phases of translation), so add your compiler on top of that, and you're going to have an unfixably slow solution.