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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: Peter, can you explain to the Amigoids (was: NeXT software size
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Date: 10 May 91 23:06:01 GMT
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In article <1991May10.212453.25464@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:

      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.

How good is the code produced by GCC on the Amiga?  That is the
compiler that NeXT uses.

-Mike