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In my experience, source problems like parsing and linking are still the major costs in compiler performance. I love this article by Walter Bright on the subjec
by Q6T46nT668w6i3m 8y ago
In my experience, source problems like parsing and linking are still the major costs in compiler performance. I love this article by Walter Bright on the subject: http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/c-compilation-speed/228701711 http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/c-compilation-speed/228701711
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoC++ is slow for many reasons, being really hard to parse is just one of them. Languages with recursive descent parsers are bound to have simpler syntaxes; eg many (though definitely not all) avoid ambiguity like using < and > as both operators and braces.