alt Hacker NewsWouldn't this kind of architecture yield a slower compiler, regardless of output quality? Conceptually, trying to implement the least-amount of passes with each doing as much work as possible would make more sense to me.
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marssaxman • yesterday at 7:09 PM
There is nothing stopping you from building an old-fashioned single-pass compiler, if compile time is your only concern. The code it generates just wouldn't be very good.
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Optimization level 2 in chez scheme does about 100 KLOC/s in my pretty modest machine, while also producing code that is pretty darn fast.