Right-to-left (was: Re: entry at other than main)

[Norman Diamond]

In article <818 at skye.ed.ac.uk> richard at aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:

>>.... there are lisp systems without an interpreter at all -
>>when you type in an expression, they compile it and execute the code
>>immediately.

In article <673 at philmtl.philips.ca> ray at philmtl.philips.ca (Raymond Dunn) writes:

>This just shows that a very hazy line separates "compilers" and "interpreters".
>There are many of us who would still call such an incremental compiler an
>interpreter.

There is a difference.  The compiled code can be executed again without
requiring compilation again.

1000000 * (execution time) + 1 * (compilation time) usually <
1000000 * (interpretation time).

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