It's a brave new world for compi ler makers.
Benchmarks offer an easy way to quantify compiler performance, making lots of spiffy tables.
Post-Compilers People talk about compilation as if it were a single process. Businesses expect software to run on Macintosh, DOS, Windows, and Unix. Moving an application to another platform is a daunting task that can change a developer's approach to writing software. In the course of developing and porting Adobe Photoshop, a package for editing images, Adobe engineers have learned a number of lessons.