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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
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Subject: Re: Re: Which C compiler is better?.
Message-ID: <394@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Jun-86 13:56:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 12 13:56:42 1986
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> Nf-ID: #R:noscvax:-50700:hplsla:6300002:000:453
> Nf-From: hplsla!jamesv    Jun  6 09:57:00 1986
> 
> 
>>                   The C-Power object code runs faster than any other compiler
>> I've used on the 64; a Seive benchmark I ran executed in 40 seconds for the
>> Proline compiler, 90 seconds in PROMAL, about 9 minutes in PASCAL, and 1 1/2
>> hours or so in C128 BASIC.
> 
> Who's Pascal compiler are you using Dave?  I'm not disputing your results
> but the large difference between your results for C and Pascal surprise me.
> 
> James Vasil
> (hplabs!hplsla!jamesv)

Greg just came back.  He says that it was Oxford PASCAL that I did the
benchmark in.  We don't have the book here, so I can't get any details on
the compiler itself.  I do recall the one nice thing about Oxford was that
is has a memory-resident compiler mode, in which the source, editor, compiler,
and object code can all be in memory at the same time.  What this gives you
is a BASIC-like enviromnent where you just type in the program and then say
RUN.  This is limited to small programs of course;  they also support disk
based compiles for larger programs.


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