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Re: Is handwritten faster?


From: Eric Wong
Subject: Re: Is handwritten faster?
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 04:48:19 +0000

"John R. Levine" <address@hidden> wrote:
> It sounds to me like the best way to improve the startup speed would
> be to figure out some way to save the parsed version of the program
> like python does so you can slurp the whole thing in without having
> to lex or parse it again.

Yes, I believe others were going to work on that.
But that comes with it's own list of issues and associated complexity:
extra I/O + disk + cache overhead; and extra code to deal with
verification/security/concurrency/permissions/etc...

Thank you for all your info!



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