[MUD-Dev] TECH: programming languages (was: Re: TECH: STL / Heaps, etc.)

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad <olag@ifi.uio.no>]

Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> This is exactly what makes high-level languages potentially fast:
> the compiler can take your high-level specification, figure out
> what it is that you're actually trying to do, and apply an
> algorithm to solving it that is more efficient than anything you
> could ever have come up with on your own, because it takes
> advantage of years of research on a topic you may never have even
> heard of.

Potentially maybe.  Unfortunately, I can't even see how this could
be generally achieved even in the most theoretical sense.

--
Ola  -  http://www.notam.uio.no/~olagr/
_______________________________________________
MUD-Dev mailing list
MUD-Dev at kanga.nu
https://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev