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From: jrh@mustang.dell.com (James R. Howard)
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Subject: Re: Best C Compiler
Keywords: Compilers
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Date: 21 Mar 90 23:32:06 GMT
References: <2940@alpha.cam.nist.gov> <1990Mar19.175316.16898@Octopus.COM> <3130@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <1990Mar20.163453.29787@Octopus.COM>
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In article <2940@alpha.cam.nist.gov>, koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E.
Koontz X5180) writes: 
> If I may humbly enquire, is the MIX's Power C any good?  It seems to be very
> inexpensive, at $40.00 for compiler and debugger.  

I bought a copy of it quite a while back.  It seemed fairly good,
especially for
the price, which at the time was $25.  A couple problems that I noticed at the
time were:

	Does not produce .OBJ files compatible with MS language compilers,
	although I think they fixed this.

	Compiler was slow, and I think it only supported certain memory 
	models.  

I can't remember clearly on this, it has been some time since I used it, and
it has probably been upgraded with new versions several times since then.

I believe that .EXE program execution was very fast, the optimizer was quite
good, and blew away both MSC and TC on some standard benchmarks.  It was also
one of the first to have VGA support in the libraries I believe.

I got away from it and went to MSC eventually.

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