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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ flexibility for speed. You get both.
Why is it named Nimrod?
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You have to find out for yourself. If you don't find a tongue-in-cheek
interpretation you have to look harder.
interpretation you will have to look harder.
How is Nimrod licensed?
@ -44,15 +44,17 @@ How stable is Nimrod?
The compiler is in development and some important features are still missing.
However, the compiler is quite stable already: It is able to compile itself
and a substantial body of other code. Until version 1.0.0 is released, slight
incompabilities with older versions of the compiler may be introduced.
and a substantial body of other code. Until version 1.0.0 is released,
incompabilities with older versions of the compiler will be introduced. The
semantic details of overloading, macros/templates/generics and iterators
and their interactions are subject to change.
How fast is Nimrod?
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Benchmarks have not been ported yet and support for threads is missing. But in
the worst case, you can get exactly the same performance as C if you decide to
write as low-level Nimrod code as C requires you to do. That said the only
the worst case, you can get exactly the same performance as in C if you decide
to write as low-level Nimrod code as C requires you to do. That said the only
overhead Nimrod has over C is the GC which has been tuned for years (and is
significantly faster than the Boehm GC).