[Gambas-user] Runtime

[Benoit Minisini]

On jeudi 22 mai 2008, Epíleg wrote:
> En/na Benoit Minisini ha escrit:
> > On mercredi 21 mai 2008, Leonardo Miliani wrote:
> >> Kari Laine ha scritto:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I don't understand much about compilers - so I ask...
> >>>
> >>> Benoit, why you decided to use runtime instead making Gambas a "true"
> >>> compiler without the need for a runtime?
> >>>
> >>> Best Regards
> >>> Kari Laine
> >>
> >> Interesting question...
> >> I'm curios too ;-)
> >
> > 1) Writing a compiler (like gcc) is too complex for me. Well, not really,
> > but I don't have the time to do that.
> >
> > 2) Writing an interpreter is easier, and allow more freedom. Writing its
> > own interpreter is a bit like writing its own CPU. The runtime is that
> > CPU. The last sentence is a shortcut, it is more complex, of course.
> >
> > 3) A program written in C/C++ has its "runtime" too, but you don't see
> > it. gcc links it to your program by default. The only difference is that
> > the gcc runtime (let's use that name for libc.so or libgcc_s.so) is
> > always installed by default. Not the Gambas runtime.
>
> Very interesting but, if the Gambas runtime is writen in c/c++, this mean
> that Gambas add another abstraction layer between compiled gambas program
> and the hardware. In other words, Gambas runtime has also it's runtime too,
> the gcc one. Isn't it?
>
> Best regards,
> Epíleg.
>

Of course.

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Benoit Minisini