Re: Orbit Development

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Thu, 14 May 1998, Phil Dawes wrote:

> Do we loose the speed of flick if we drop the compiler?

I have read the flick papers, and as far as I can ascertain, their
"optimizing compiler" is mostly just a big term that they bandy about.
That doesn't mean we *shouldn't* use flick for an IDL compiler, just that
I don't see its use giving us any inherent advantages over writing our
own. Best reason to use it is because it is probably the only decent &
maintained IDL compiler out there.

> Ah right. You're reaching the boundaries of my knowledge when talking
> about shared libraries with other languages. I'll come back when I've
> done some reading.

Cool, thanks for your thoughts,
-- Elliot
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