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Is it REALLY so strange?

Is it REALLY so strange?

Posted Jan 29, 2009 0:57 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Is it REALLY so strange? by dlang
Parent article: The new GCC runtime library exemption

Hah. It was more extreme even than that, IIRC. The Clipper 'compiler' at
least worked by compiling the program to bytecode and then simply
appending the bytecode to a 180Kb-or-so interpreter-and-database-engine.
(Despite that, the linker was astonishingly slow. I have no clue what it
was doing: given that it was linking the same binary every time, I'm not
even sure why they *needed* a linker.)


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