johnl@ima.UUCP (08/21/87)
In article <678@ima.ISC.COM> bct <bct@its63b.ed.ac.uk> writes: > I was involved with the production of compilers related to the MUSS system. >...It was not advertised to the users that the compilers were not generating >native code, and the linker was doing a little more than linking. The same technique was used recently by Dave Hansen at Arizona, when his group realized that the compilers & assemblers both had partial resolvers which were duplicated in the linker. And that linking was really little more than a merge-sort. I tried the same trick and the linker ran faster than the system linker i was using... -- David Collier-Brown. {mnetor|yetti|utgpu}!geac!daveb Geac Computers International Inc., | Computer Science loses its 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | memory (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months. -- Send compilers articles to ima!compilers or, in a pinch, to Levine@YALE.ARPA Plausible paths are { ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale | cca}!ima Please send responses to the originator of the message -- I cannot forward mail accidentally sent back to compilers. Meta-mail to ima!compilers-requebal