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From: gnu@toad.com
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Subject: Volunteer needed for Tahoe code improvement
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Date: 19 Nov 89 00:03:02 GMT
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UC Berkeley wants to adopt gcc as its main compiler, but on the
machines they use the most (the Harris "Tahoe"), gcc generates worse
code than their existing PCC compiler.  The Tahoe code generator is
relatively new and hasn't seen widespread use and improvement yet.

If there is anyone who knows Tahoe assembler and is willing to help
tune up the generated code, please send me email.  Probably this will
involve profiling some programs built with gcc and pcc, to figure out
where the time is going, reading the generated assembler code to see
where it is doing stupid things, and being able to explain those
things to a compiler maintainer.

Thanks...

	John Gilmore (gnu@toad.com)