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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Datalight faster than 4.2, why?
Message-ID: <1196@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 7-Jun-86 13:49:10 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  7 13:49:10 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Jun-86 04:14:42 EDT
References: <697@bu-cs.UUCP> <275@zeus.UUCP>
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <275@zeus.UUCP> bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed) writes:
>What's the point?   Sure, it consolidates the C compiler into one less load
>module, but the processing is still done as a separate pass, and should have
>no effect on performance or functionality.

(a) This discussion pertains to a particular implementation of the compiler,
not to the language itself.

(b) UNIX (the implementation being discussed) actually works better if you
let it multitask, rather than insisting on purely sequential execution.