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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Buying C for PC - 32 bit compilers?
Keywords: PC, C
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Date: 18 Oct 89 18:25:11 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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  In answer to part of your question, running under xenix 386, typical
programs run 40-100% longer using the 286 instructions than the 386.
Same machine, o/s and all. Phil Katz' ZIP program uses a 386 is present,
and he claims something like 40% too.

  I have seen a few numbers which would indicate that the NDP C is
slightly faster than Xenix C, but I haven't retested with the newest
version of Xenix C, which does produce better code (and has the ANSI
extensions, too).

-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon