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From: phil@sequent.UUCP (VP de GSP)
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Subject: Re: Datalight faster than 4.2, why?
Message-ID: <1966@sequent.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Jun-86 21:30:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  2 21:30:21 1986
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Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc, Portland, OR
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There is another very good reason to logically separate pieces
of a compile phase into pieces.  A multi-processor computer
(like our BALANCE 21000) for example can do:

% /lib/cpp ed.c | /lib/ccom | /lib/c2 | as -o ed.o
89.8u 7.0s 0:56 172% 29+21io 10pf+0w
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Try doing that with a single process compiler ...

--Phil Hochstetler, Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.