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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: 16 May 91 20:57:58 GMT
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In article <1991May16.170000.7354@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:


     GCC on the nExt iextremely inefficient. Maybe some good programmer will come
   along and change that, but it hasn't happened on the Mac yet...


Actually, I've heard GCC generates good 68000 code because it has been
refined for the Sun 3, which has been around for a few years.  Maybe
there are special optimizations that can be made for the 68040.

-Mike