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From: mikes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Shannon)
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Subject: Re: Review of Mystic Pascal for the IBM PC
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Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 15:17:31 EST
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Clayton Elwell in the cited article writes:
> One word describes this system in general: SPEED.
> 
> Mystic Pascal is an incremental compiler.  You change five lines in a 2000
> line program, it only recompiles those lines.  It compiles the 7K sample
> program supplied with the package in 0.03 seconds.  That is not a typo.
> 247 lines in 0.03 seconds.  This evening I will benchmark execution
> speed and code size against MS-PASCAL and Turbo Pascal and post the results.
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	Uh, the way I figure it, .03sec/7kbytes comes out to about 4 and
a half microseconds per character.  This amounts to only a couple of
machine instructions per byte.
	A program can't even decide if the character is an 'a' or not
in this amount of time, much less do some real compiling.  Maybe you're
only off by a couple of orders of magnitude.
	Who's kidding who (or is it whom?)?
			Eagerly awaiting more benchmark humor,
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			Michael Shannon {ihnp4,hplabs}!oliveb!3comvax!mikes