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From: freed@aum.UUCP (Erik Freed)
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Subject: Re: drystones
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Date: Sun, 22-Dec-85 12:37:59 EST
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 [stuff about compiler being responsible for bad drystone performance]

> Don't be so sure.  I have seen a beta test version of a compiler
> I can't name yet that gives the following results:
> 				Lattice		"Brand-X"
> 
> 	with registers		459		1041
> 	without registers	454		980
> 	with reg, file size	15680		5648
> 	without reg, file size	15724		5808
> 	boink + dry (regs)	112		236
> 	robocity + dry (regs)	184		403

That lattice compiler must really be awful. The 68000 is not exactly the
most awful architecture to deal with... I stand corrected. This seems to prove
that the hardware is not at fault. Just goes to show that the compiler writers
of america are an uneven bunch and can make or break a product. How did Atari
luck out an get such a seemingly good one right off the bat? (You Amiga owners
must be drooling to get this one)
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                           Erik James Freed
			   Aurora Systems
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