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From: ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Lanett)
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Subject: Re: THINK and other C
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Date: 20 Jun 91 10:48:31 GMT
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torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>  Can anyone say whether THINK C was used for the final, production
>Pagemaker code?  Or did they go to MPW [for its better code
>generation?]

Better code generation my ass. I can only laugh when I hear this, albeit
in a black-humor sort of way. Obviously Mr. Torrie has never used MPW and
is just passing on something he's heard elsewhere. For instance, he's
probably never run into that problem where MPW C uses _two_ registers for 
"i" in an x=a[i]+b[i] loop, ONE OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN INITIALIZED. Or...
but the system's going down, I must be off..
Really Mr. Torrie, you should know better.

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>Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
>"Lay me place and bake me pie, I'm starving for me gravy... Leave my shoes
>and door unlocked, I might just slip away - hey - just for the day."
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Mark Lanett						mlanett@uiuc.edu
Software Tools Group, NCSA