The compiling tag has no wiki summary.
-4
votes
1answer
185 views
Are there any flaws in this Programming Language / Virtual Machine design?
I am building a Virtual Machine and I think I have a perfect program design but I am worried as I don't have too much experience on this field there might be flaws.
Before I'll tell you how it'll ...
0
votes
2answers
181 views
Must OpenCL code be compiled for a specific GPU?
Most OpenCL Tutorials give a nice introduction to OpenCL, yet I have not found information on the question of interoperability of the compilation targets. It seems that I have to compile OpenCL code ...
6
votes
2answers
358 views
Is it considered bad practice to compile into Javascript as a matter of language preference? [closed]
I understand that compiling into Javascript is sometimes necessary and even in some cases results in a faster application.
However I'm wondering if compiling into Javascript, for building web ...
3
votes
5answers
409 views
Is it bad to place “include directive” within main function?
It is always said that the include directives should be placed at the beginning of a script. The main reason is to make the functions available throughout the script. Regardless of this fact, is it ...
0
votes
1answer
126 views
Pros and cons of the following Parsing methods?
I'm thinking of making a Python-JavaScript converter/compile. I've been wondering about the pros and cons of the following methods to parse the Pythonic code, into JavaScript equivalent.
Working ...
3
votes
2answers
365 views
How is it possible to build the whole codebase from source at Google scale?
The first answer to an old, recently active question linked to a video which talks about how Google repository is done.
One interesting thing which was mentioned is the fact that everything is build ...
0
votes
0answers
58 views
Checking out and compiling repository. What is the correct approach for starting the compilation process?
I am writing a Bash script that automatically updates a repository containing source code and then compiles it. I have been a bit stuck on the part about how to start the compilation itself, i.e. if I ...
0
votes
0answers
38 views
how to compile the code remotly and show results to the user [duplicate]
It's just a how-to question, want to know the right path to explore, can anyone guide me how the sites like http://jsfiddle.net or http://ideone.com/ works, meaning by the user inputs the code in ...
5
votes
3answers
266 views
Compiling multiple languages and Javascript
I have read numerous times that programming languages when making games or large software often use multiple languages / scripts together. I'm wondering how that works. How do they compile it? How ...
10
votes
2answers
423 views
Shipping my first class library. Any gotchas I need to be aware of?
I'm a Web Developer about to unlock the "First Class Library Published" achievement in my career and I'm sweating bullets (literally - I was up all night stressing out). I'd love to tap the ...
9
votes
4answers
517 views
Constants in C#
Why does the compiler store constant values in the assembly metadata?
Are they directly embedded to Intermediate Language code from the assembly metadata?
3
votes
3answers
400 views
Compiling vs using pre-built binaries performance?
Will performance be better (quicker) if I manually compile the source for a software component for the actual machine that it will be used on, compared to if the source was compiled on another ...
5
votes
5answers
10k views
How to write a very basic compiler [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Best Online resources to learn about Compilers?
What would be the best way to learn about compilers, and executable formats?
Advanced compilers like gcc compile codes ...
1
vote
6answers
830 views
Can I get a C++ Compiler to instantiate objects at compile time
I am writing some code that has a very large number of reasonably simple objects and I would like them the be created at compile time. I would think that a compiler would be able to do this, but I ...
-1
votes
2answers
244 views
Have javac call automatically run java
I want to be able to call javac <class file name>, and then automatically run java on the compiled .class file.
I thought initially to use a x86 disassembler to hack it (javac.exe) but bumped ...
10
votes
4answers
2k views
What is the meaning of the sentence “we wanted it to be compiled so it’s not burning CPU doing the wrong stuff.”
I was reading this article. It has the following paragraph.
And did Scala turn out to be fast? Well, what’s your definition of fast? About as fast as Java. It doesn’t have to be as fast as C or ...
9
votes
3answers
645 views
Why is the output of a compiler called object code?
From the essay Programming Languages Explained by Paul Graham, published in Hackers & Painters:
The high-level language that you feed the compiler is also known as
source code, and the ...
2
votes
0answers
140 views
CoffeeScript translates to JavaScript. Is there something like it for C? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a language that transcompiles to C with a better syntax?
There are many language implementations which compile to C. However, most of them have some language ...
6
votes
4answers
3k views
What is the difference between building and compiling ?
What's the difference between Building and Compiling.
7
votes
6answers
1k views
How can I organize fast and comfortable solution compilation in VS 2010?
Most of programmers who are involved into development of more or less large project(s) know how annoying the process of compilation can be. There are some other things which are dependent on ...
6
votes
7answers
625 views
How to cope with the problem of (compiling) a large code base?
Although I can code, I don't yet have any experience with working on large projects. What I did so far was either coding small programs that get compiled in matter of seconds (various c/c++ exercises ...
8
votes
3answers
736 views
Do functional programming languages have more opportunity to do compile time optimization?
I was reading the book "Functional Programming for the Real World". It started with comparison between imperative and functional programming languages. And it stated how 'values' and 'expressions' in ...
1
vote
2answers
195 views
Simplifying the process of compiling and running objective-c apps in GNUstep
I just installed GNUstep (following this post: http://www.jaysonjc.com/programming/objective-c-programming-in-windows-gnustep-projectcenter.html)
It says to run this code:
gcc -o helloworld ...
9
votes
8answers
1k views
Why doesn't my IDE do background compiling/building?
Today I develop on a fairly complex computer, it has multiple cores, SSD drives and what not. Still, most of the time I'm programming the computer is leasurely doing nothing. When I need to compile ...
