| Thomas G. Marshall 2005-08-17, 9:16 am |
| Dale King coughed up:
> Thomas G. Marshall wrote:
>
> Sorry, that was Tor that said it. I wrote both replies about the same
> time and repeated my getting the two of you mixed up.
S'ok. I'll survive, though it /is/ one of my angrier pet peeves...
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>
> It isn't really smarter than the C compiler. It's not that the Java
> compiler writers were smarter or did a better job. It's just got a
> different compilation model that allows / requires the compiler to do
> more.
== smarter.
> You might think it is smarter because it will compile other files that
> it sees that are out of date above and beyond what you told it to
> compile.
Yes.
> But that is really only because it has to look at the
> compilation output of other files. A C compiler doesn't use other
> outputs of the compiler so has no real reason why it would be looking
> to see if they are out of date.
>
> You might think it is smarter because of the way that it can resolve
> circular dependencies by compiling multiple files at the same time.
Yes.
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