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I (think) stalin isn't maintained since forever; how does it compare to contemporary compilers? Are there any similar projects for other dynamic languages?

• tsuyoshi 12y ago
  The closest is probably MLton, a compiler for Standard ML.
  • jessaustin 12y ago
    Named, I'm assuming, for John Milton? That so-called poet and all-around horrible person that even Samuel Johnson considered an "acrimonious and surly republican"? It's his Paradise Lost we have to thank for the scourge of "blank verse"! Oh, the humanity! Also he supported and served under Cromwell, of all people! Surely we can throw this horribly-named compiler on the dustpile of computer science history!?
    • maxharris 12y ago
      Milton never murdered between 20 and 60 million people.
      • zorked 12y ago
        Pretty sure it was a joke.
      • _delirium 12y ago
        Only because there weren't that many people in the vicinity! A large portion of those who did have the misfortune to be there got killed, though; estimates are that about 15-25% of the Irish population was killed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian_conquest_of_Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian_conquest_of_Irelan...
  • bachmeier 12y ago
    Standard ML is not a dynamic language.
    • peterfirefly 12y ago
      No, but it does whole-program optimization.
• malisper 12y ago
  According to this blog post from 2009[0], it was slightly faster than C compiled with the GCC and almost 15x faster than Chicken Scheme. I have tried looking for more rigorous benchmarks but have been unable to find any. [0] http://justindomke.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/the-stalin-compiler/ http://justindomke.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/the-stalin-compi...