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From: sterling@cbmvax.commodore.com (Rick Sterling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Benchmarks for 3000 vs 2500
Message-ID: <11476@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 9 May 90 20:12:17 GMT
References: <11445@cbmvax.commodore.com> <18962@estelle.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: sterling@cbmvax (Rick Sterling)
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In article <18962@estelle.udel.EDU> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
> In article <11445@cbmvax.commodore.com> martin@cbmvax.UUCP (Martin Hunt) writes:
> >    There is a bug in the Lattice compiler that causes programs
> >with names that are not multiples of 4 long to be much slower on a 68020
> > ...
> Can you clarify this please?  Is it the name of the executable that must be
> a multiple of four, or the name of the source?  If it's the executable,
> ...
> 			-- Darren

It is the executable ... simply renaming the executable illustrates the bug.
I brought this to Lattice's attention eon's ago when 5.02 was released.
Hopefully they have fixed it by now. I haven't checked later releases as I
spend most of my time in Forth-land ;-)
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