Jonathan Blow
On The Metal
Compiler Performance Comparison
The compilation model used by c and by many other languages is that you compile your program in little pieces that are dotto files. We use a different approach called turbo Pascal which lets us do parallel compilation but also does all these things wrong. Some of those things are not necessary so like the game that we have right now that we're working on is it's about a hundred thousand lines with our compiler running mostly on a single core. That whole game can be compiled in 0.9 seconds because we got nine hundred milliseconds for each link step. It was such a lightning it was like running on apple twos or something and yeah and i think it's glowing hot to the touchYeah remember turbo
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