[TYPES] Grand Challenge Problems?

KS Sreeram sreeram at tachyontech.net
Sun Jan 17 12:20:14 EST 2010


Stalin is certainly a great piece of work. But it does have a few
shortcomings:

1) Painfully long build times
2) Difficulty in reasoning about the performance. It's not very clear how to
_design_ for performance.

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KS Sreeram
Tachyon Technologies

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Geoffrey S. Knauth <geoff at knauth.org>wrote:

> On Jan 17, 2010, at 08:29, KS Sreeram wrote:
>
> > Make a clean, expressive, high-level programming language which
> > has performance that _equals_ C++.
>
> Does the Stalin Scheme compiler rate?
>
>


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