[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Speed

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Albert,

Thursday, December 29, 2005, 11:56:12 PM, you wrote:

AL> For almost a decade, most (I dare claim even all) Pascal and C
AL> compilers were "three-pass" or "two-pass".

1) Pascal was developed as one-pass compiled language.
highly-optimizing compilers used additional passes to generate better
code

2) multiple passes was used in times where was just not enough memory
to perform all passes in parallel

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