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Re: New very simple methodology to create a m-file compiler.


From: GoSim
Subject: Re: New very simple methodology to create a m-file compiler.
Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 11:54:48 -0500 (CDT)

Richard Crozier wrote
> On 07/05/2019 17:06, GoSim wrote:
>> Carlo de Falco-2 wrote
> 
>>>
>>> also, what is the actual purpose of this thread in the first place?
>>> is the OP poster proposing to change the grammar of the language in
>>> order
>>> to make it easier to compile?
>>> if you are looking for a language symilar to (but not compatible with)
>>> matlab that is faster to parse and compile then why not just look at
>>> https://julialang.org/ ?
>>> c.
>>
>> The purpose is to make it possible to compile m-files for speed.
>>
>>
> 
> I think his point is that making it work for a large part of the code
> base is pretty hard (otherwise a good JIT would also be easy), and if
> you make it so that there are many many things which a user must
> remember to make it work safely, then it might be just as easy for them
> to write it in another language in the first place.
> 
> Richard
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