Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Peter, can you explain to the Amigoids (was: NeXT software size Message-ID: <1991May10.212453.25464@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 10 May 91 21:24:53 GMT References: <11866@uwm.edu> <*05Gx0x&1@cs.psu.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 26 In article <*05Gx0x&1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >In article <11866@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes: > > okay, maybe this will be a little easier to understand. A 500k > program on your NeXT will be faster than a 2mb program on it, no? So > a 500k program on a 68040 3000 will be faster than a 2mb program on > your nExt. > >No, they will run at the same speed, unless you get swapping but that >will depend on how much memory you have. Once the working set is in >the computer, it doesn't swap until it needs a page that isn't in >memory. > Don't weasle out of this one. Take any source code. Then take any of the six or so Amiga C compilers. Aztec C tends to have tighter code than Lattice, and the same source will compile into two different programs based upon the speed they execute. The Aztec program will be smaller, and run faster (at least in our programs, although I am sure there are other cases). Then try compiling with DICE, PDC, or any other compiler. Here you will also see a noticable difference in size and speed of the same exact source. -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN "If you think that we're here for the money, we could live without it. But the world isn't too good here, and it wasn't always like that." Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.