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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C -- static forward references
Message-ID: <1848@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 17-Dec-86 00:44:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 17 00:44:17 1986
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Summary: One-pass compilers are FAST, not 'primitive'!

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> [claims that one-pass compilers only belong on obsolete hardware...]

I use the Megamax C compiler on the Atari ST.  It is a one-pass compiler,
vintage 1986.  I love it, because it is VERY fast!  Just because the machine
has 1 Meg RAM and a 68000 does NOT mean efficiency doesn't pay!

A note to compiler writers: One-pass, two-pass, I don't care what the
algorithm is, but please use RAM, not the disk, for "temporary files" stuff.
It's all that disk-grinding that is obsolete!

- Moshe Braner