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From: brownc@utah-cs.UUCP (Eric C. Brown)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: Not again!?  Assembler vs High-Level languages
Message-ID: <3278@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 11:02:48 EST
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.3278
Posted: Tue Apr  9 11:02:48 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Apr-85 00:35:24 EST
References: <483@terak.UUCP> <2251@wateng.UUCP> <492@terak.UUCP>
Reply-To: brownc@utah-cs.UUCP (Eric C. Brown)
Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept
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Summary: 

In article <492@terak.UUCP> doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
>My original posting attacked the popular notion that there exists in
>some Nirvana an optimizing compiler which produces code as good as
>expertly coded assembler.  

Again, I would suggest that you look at BLISS;  BLISS produces code that
is almost always *smaller* and usually much *faster* than most assembler code
produced by assembler.

>The Unix community apparently disapproves of such practices, since there
>is no profiling program in the "toolbox" that is part of 4.2BSD.  I
>dunno about System V.

Gee, why don't you look at 'cc -p' and prof?  They're in *this* 4.2 BSD
installation.

Eric C. Brown
brownc@utah-cs
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