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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
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Subject: Re: REVIEW: Comeau C++ compiler
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Date: 24 Apr 91 03:06:51 GMT
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GHGAQZ4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be writes:
>>So then, the new lattice C++ (from what i've heard) will compile directly to
>>object modules.  this means then that the lattice compiler will not be
>>standard?  I've ALWAYS disliked the fact that with lattice you had to
>>dis-assemble an object module to see the assembly as well.  to me the perfect
>>C++ would compile to C, then from C to assembly, and then assemble the
>>assembly, of course allowing anywhere in between to stop and examine any
>>stage.  the Manx C compiler does this quite well, even embeds the C source
>>into the assembly as comments if you like.  Would anyone else like a C++
>>compiler to do this?
>
>I hope Lattice is NEVER going to do that (except when they make it optional
>ofcourse) because this approach is slow (not that Lattice is very fast at
>this moment but it would be worse with compilation to assembly instead of
>object code). And there is still another reason that I don't want that :
>Lattice ASM is about the slowest assembler I've ever seen. If you'd had
>to assemble after each compile session your productivity level would go
>below zero I think.
>
>   Jorrit Tyberghein


Well, the Aztec compiler compiles to assembly first, and i find that it's
FASTER than lattice compiling the same thing, so i don't think that argument
holds.. 

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