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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Any Pascal programmers for Apple II GS?
Message-ID: <16115@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 11 May 91 01:24:44 GMT
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In article <13419@goofy.Apple.COM> jeffh@HyperMail.apple.com (Jeff Holcomb) writes:
>Does the MPW IIgs Pascal compiler do any optimizations on the code?  If so,
>what kinds?  I don't know about Orca/Pascal, but Orca/C is definitely not an
>optimizing compiler.  The same for MPW IIgs C, I think.

Wrong -- ORCA/C definitely performs several kinds of optimization, several
of which can be selectively enabled/disabled via "#pragma optimize ...".
The default is to disable most optimizations, which may be where you got
your idea.