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.\" Copyright (c) 1979 The Regents of the University of California.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" @(#)pxin4.n 5.2 (Berkeley) 4/17/91
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.nr H1 3
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.if n .ND
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.NH
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Conclusions
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.PP
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It is appropriate to consider,
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given the amount of time invested in rewriting the interpreter,
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whether the time was well spent, or whether a code-generator
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could have been written with an equivalent amount of effort.
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The Berkeley Pascal system is being modified to interface
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to the code generator of the portable C compiler with
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not much more work than was involved in rewritting
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.I px .
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However this compiler will probably not supercede the interpreter
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in an instructional environment as the
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necessary loading and assembly processes will slow the
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compilation process to a noticeable degree.
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This effect will be further exaggerated because
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student users spend more time in compilation than in execution.
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Measurements over the course of a quarter at Berkeley with a mixture
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of students from beginning programming to upper division compiler
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construction show that the amount of time in compilation exceeds the amount
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of time spent in the interpreter, the ratio being approximately 60/40.
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.PP
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A more promising approach might have been a throw-away code generator
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such as was done for the
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.SM
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WATFIV
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.NL
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system.
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However the addition of high-quality post-mortem and interactive
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debugging facilities become much more difficult to provide than
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in the interpreter environment.
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