11-10-2011, 03:56 PM
slenkar Wrote:do you think the compilation of speccy games would go faster if the compiler was written in a faster language like java?
btw yacc is available in java
for me, the compiler is excellent as it is, and the compilation speed is not such a big problem, at least for me
an excellent part of this compiler is mostly because it is coded in Python, a relativelly very easy and clean language to debug, providing a relativelly fast coding - for example, when you need 100 lines of Java for coding a 'hello world' example, on Python you just need 1 line.
and while Python interpreter is all software-libre for sure, Java isn't so clear about it (see those recent issues about Oracle-Sun related to Google and Android...)