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bam, nailed that shit, especially the point about performance costs inherent in a feature set rather than in a language. I just didn't want to continue a conve
by mreiland 12y ago
bam, nailed that shit, especially the point about performance costs inherent in a feature set rather than in a language.
I just didn't want to continue a conversation with someone who thinks adjusting the age old "optimizations will eventually make it as fast" to be "compiling to C/C++ as an optimization will eventually make it as fast" was somehow going to magically make it come true.
It's the same old argument reskinned, and as you pointed out, the feature set has a lot to do with it.
- derefr 12y agoI said nothing about "compiling to C/C++ as an optimization." I said targeting C++'s semantics (i.e. having only features C++ already has) makes a language fast.
- mreiland 12y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7921511 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7921511 > If you want all the advantages of C++ compilers, you can write a backend for the language's compiler that generates C++.