On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr> wrote:

> Does performance really matter that much for rapid prototyping/development?


Rapid prototyping for me often involves a couple of lines of code that read
in a very large file and do something with it. I have to keep compiling
these small programs to native code because the performance of the toplevel
is too slow. Then, I have to recompile and re-read the whole file for every
little additional thing I want to compute. A high-performance toplevel would
help in this kind of work.