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Subject: Re: C++ slow?

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 04:24:36 07/05/99

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On July 03, 1999 at 12:44:24, Dan Andersson wrote:

>No, but mu chess workbench was actually speeded up when porting it to Scheme w.
>native code compiation.

Cool.  What Scheme compiler do you use?

>Then I changed to GNU(Small)Eiffel and  it got even
>faster. Nwvardays I do rapid prototyping in Scheme and FORTH and get instant
>debugging due to the fast interprete-compile-execute cycle then translate it to
>SmallEiffel and get ansi-c code compilable almost everywhere, and the code can
>be verified to be correct due to the pre- and postconditions in the Eiffel DBC
>(design by contract). My experience is that C++ programming is overly time
>consuming.

I am not familiar with the Eiffel programming language.  What advantages does
it offer?

Tord



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