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by bsder 66 days ago
> There is nothing stopping you from building an old-fashioned single-pass compiler, if compile time is your only concern. The code it generates just wouldn't be very good.

Define "very good".

The very simplest optimizations get you almost all the benefit. Proebsting's Law applies: Compiler Advances Double Computing Power Every 18 Years