Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: SPARC implementation or architecture Message-ID: Date: 24 Apr 91 14:37:52 GMT References: <1991Apr17.183822.7681@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <41377@cup.portal.com> <1991Apr18.142341.23097@rice.edu> <2500@spim.mips.COM> <1991Apr23.140140.27847@webo.dg.com> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 26 In-reply-to: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM's message of 24 Apr 91 02:32:27 GMT In article khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup) writes: | | In article <1991Apr23.140140.27847@webo.dg.com> lewine@cheshirecat.webo.dg.com (Donald Lewine) writes: | | .... MIPS marketing (at least as retold | by DEC) is that the MIPS compiler technology provides a *HUGE* | ^^^^^^ | advantage over other RISC architectures. If the difference is | +/- 10%, that is a whole different story. | | That was the old _DEC_ story. DEC's newest compiler release (press | release info) claimed dramatic improvements with the new compilers ... | which are a product of DEC not based on the MIPSco base. | | Marketing departments reserve the right to change stories as | circumstances dictate ;> Maybe you should actually read the release. It says that the put a NEW front end on, and that the back end was provided by MIPSco. Also, only Fortran had dramatic improvements, C was pretty much unchanged. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?