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From: leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.dsp
Subject: Re: Is there a compiler for TMS320C25 somewhere?
Keywords: C, question
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Date: 5 Sep 90 21:18:39 GMT
References: <1990Sep4.092517.13387@isy.liu.se>
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In article <1990Sep4.092517.13387@isy.liu.se> tommyp@isy.liu.se (Tommy Pedersen) writes:
>[People I know in the DSP biz tell me that although there are many C
>compilers for DSP chips, nobody uses them because they're all too slow.
>-John]

    Well, maybe nobody doing DSP code uses them.  The AT&T Pixel
Machine, a graphics engine based on multiple DSP32s, is coded in C
mixed hand-rolled assembler.
--
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)
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